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If we are writing about power-wise option – is using a console-based application in C#(.NET) better than having Windows GUI and what’s the real difference expept few libraries loaded in operational memory?
The issue is about text comparisons and working with strings, connecting to Internet, gathering data, working with database.
I meant power-capability, but as I’ve read here, it’s more about controls than any power-relation. Thx 🙂
From your description it seems that you want to write an HTML scraping software or some kind of web spider. I think your decision whether to write a GUI or a command line application should depend on who (users) or which other software components will use or integrate your program.
If there is no user interaction involved, I guess it would be just fine to write it as command line program. If you have some options to set you could pass them as arguments.
If it will be a recurring, isolated job, you could also consider writing the application as windows service, which could start with the machine.