Question

How would I accomplish displaying a line as the one below in a console window by writing it into a variable during design time then just calling Console.WriteLine(sDescription) to display it?

        Options:             -t          Description of -t argument.             -b          Description of -b argument. 

Answer 1

If I understand your question right, what you need is the @ sign in front of your string. This will make the compiler take in your string literally (including newlines etc)

In your case I would write the following:

String sDescription = @'Options:     -t          Description of -t argument.'; 

So far for your question (I hope), but I would suggest to just use several WriteLines. The performance loss is next to nothing and it just is more adaptable. You could work with a format string so you would go for this:

string formatString = '{0:10} {1}'; Console.WriteLine('Options:'); Console.WriteLine(formatString, '-t', 'Description of -t argument.'); Console.WriteLine(formatString, '-b', 'Description of -b argument.'); 

the formatstring makes sure your lines are formatted nicely without putting spaces manually and makes sure that if you ever want to make the format different you just need to do it in one place.