Setting background and foreground colors of Console App?

Question

I'm trying to set the background and foreground colors of my console application. But no matter what I try, the colors do not differ from the default black & white. This is the beginning of my Main method. I've tried with and without Console.Clear()

Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
Console.Clear();

I've checked MSDN and searched SO already, and the above example seems to work for everybody else. Any advice?

Have you print something yet in the console to verifyif it is working? Because the code you posted is not showing it. — Sandip Ghosh, Dec 16 '17 at 13:58
No, there is more - the next line just writes to the console: Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the Create-A-Menu app!"); But I've also tried setting the background color with no success — Link, Dec 16 '17 at 14:01
That's the way to do it. Maybe you're using a different commandline shell? Try explicitly running cmd.exe, navigating to you app and running it via that commandline. — Ridiculous, Dec 16 '17 at 14:09
Interesting - opening the project in visual studio as an administrator worked. Thanks @Berkay — Link, Dec 16 '17 at 14:27
Possible duplicate of [Is it possible to write to the console in colour in .NET?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2743260/is-it-possible-to-write-to-the-console-in-colour-in-net) — codebender, Dec 16 '17 at 14:48

Slaven Tojić · Answer 1 · 2017-12-16T14:37:41.413

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Try this:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
        Console.Clear();
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
        Console.WriteLine("Red background and white letters");
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}

edited Dec 16 '17 at 14:37

answered Dec 16 '17 at 14:32

Slaven Tojić

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Setting background and foreground colors of Console App?

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