From the course: Robotic Process Automation: Tech Primer

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Create a console app

Create a console app

- [Instructor] In the previous section, we created this simple desktop app to learn about the fundamentals of creating an app and automating a desktop app with UiPath. In this section, we're going to focus more on programming skills, so we're going to create a different kind of application project called a console application, and you've probably seen something like this before. If you go to your Start menu and type in CMD, you can see this thing called a command prompt. That is a console application. When I click on this, it opens up this black window that has text in it. And that's the biggest difference between a console app and a desktop app is that the desktop app is going to have user interface elements like this, whereas a console app is going to be mostly text-based. We interact with a console app by typing in text commands. So, for example, if I type in dir, which is short for directory, when I then hit Return, it gives me a list of all the files in this current working…

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