1. Getting started with ConTabs

Installing

The easiest way to install ConTabs is to use your package manager to pull it from NuGet.

In Visual Studio, this can be done by searching for "ConTabs" in the package manager UI, or by running the following in the package manager console:

Install-Package ConTabs.tdwright

If you're using the .NET CLI, you need to:

dotnet add package ConTabs.tdwright

It's also possible to download the package manually from the NuGet gallery.

Basic usage

ConTabs works by accepting an IEnumerable of your data type, so you'll first need to make sure you've got one of those. For this guide, I've got an List of type Planet called Planets.

Turning your list into a table, can be as simple as:

var table = Table<Planet>.Create(Planets);
Console.WriteLine(table.ToString());

Those two lines will produce the following:

+---------+-----------------+---------------+
| Name    | DistanceFromSun | OrbitalPeriod |
+---------+-----------------+---------------+
| Mercury | 57909227        | 88            |
| Venus   | 108209475       | 225           |
| Earth   | 149598262       | 365.24        |
| Mars    | 227943824       | 693.5         |
| Jupiter | 778340821       | 4343.5        |
| Saturn  | 1426666422      | 10767.5       |
| Uranus  | 2870658186      | 30660         |
| Neptune | 4498396441      | 60152         |
+---------+-----------------+---------------+

Easy, right?