SadConsole 7.0.3

This package has been deprecated as it is legacy and is no longer maintained.

Suggested Alternatives

There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.

dotnet add package SadConsole --version 7.0.3

NuGet\Install-Package SadConsole -Version 7.0.3

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="SadConsole" Version="7.0.3" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

<PackageVersion Include="SadConsole" Version="7.0.3" />
                    

                            Directory.Packages.props

<PackageReference Include="SadConsole" />
                    

                            Project file

For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.

paket add SadConsole --version 7.0.3

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

#r "nuget: SadConsole, 7.0.3"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

#:package SadConsole@7.0.3

#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.

#addin nuget:?package=SadConsole&version=7.0.3
                    

                            Install as a Cake Addin

#tool nuget:?package=SadConsole&version=7.0.3
                    

                            Install as a Cake Tool

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

A MonoGame library that emulates old-school console and command prompt style graphics. Use the SadConsole.Starter package for new projects.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET Framework	net is compatible.
Universal Windows Platform	uap10 is compatible.

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

- Newtonsoft.Json (>= 11.0.2)

NuGet packages (10)

Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on SadConsole:

Package	Downloads
SadConsole.Host.MonoGame A graphics hosting library for SadConsole that targets MonoGame.	34.1K
SadConsole.Extended A library of common classes that extend SadConsole with new controls, windows, and more.	33.2K
SadConsole.Host.SFML A graphics hosting library for SadConsole that targets SFML.	23.3K
SadConsole.GoRogueHelpers A helper library for SadConsole games built with GoRogue.	9.8K
TheSadRogue.Integration An official integration library for using GoRogue and SadConsole together to create a roguelike.	7.6K

GitHub repositories

This package is not used by any popular GitHub repositories.

Version	Downloads	Last Updated
10.9.0	292	3/29/2026
10.8.0	659	1/19/2026
10.8.0-debug	165	1/19/2026
10.7.0	689	11/15/2025
10.7.0-debug	241	11/15/2025
10.6.0	1,663	8/9/2025
10.6.0-debug	252	8/9/2025
10.5.0	2,593	12/7/2024
10.5.0-debug	286	12/7/2024
10.4.2	426	10/24/2024
10.4.2-debug	207	10/24/2024
10.4.1	1,604	6/13/2024
10.4.1-debug	311	6/13/2024
10.4.0	1,671	3/31/2024
10.4.0-debug	341	3/31/2024
10.0.3	844	3/14/2024
10.0.3-debug	416	3/14/2024
10.0.2	1,800	11/10/2023
7.0.3	2,311	9/8/2018
0.0.1-test	172	3/29/2026

7.0.0 [BREAKING CHANGES]
- New SurfaceBase class which all Surface's inherit from.
- SurfaceBase has an IRenderer on it directly now.
- SurfaceEditor has been removed and is now implemented on SurfaceBase directly.
- Console no longer combines Renderer and TextSurface for drawing.
- Draw(SpriteBatch batch, Point position, Point size, Font font) has been removed.
- Cell/CellState have a Decorators list which are used to add extra glyph draws to individual cells.
- CellDecorator class added that has a color, glyph, and mirror setting.
- SadConsole.Serialization uses Newtonsoft.Json instead of the default .NET classes.
- SadConsole.Serialization supports GZIP compression now.
- Settings.SerializationIsCompressed can be set to true to set all internal save/load to use compression.
- Control themes completely rewritten. Themes control all drawing for a control now.
- Windows/ControlsConsole use a theme for drawing.
- InputBox renamed TextBox.
- Removed GameHelpers namespace. Types moved to root namespace.
- GameObject renamed to Entity.
- Surface.RenderArea changed to Surface.ViewPort
- Readded Zone and HotSpot types.
- Removed random level generation.
- Added Entities.EntityManager which helps control entity visibility and offsets based on a parent console. Also handles zones/hotspots.

7.0.2

- Fixed render bug with Entity/Animation if no parent was attached.
- Fixed ColoredString + operator.
- SadConsole IBM Extended font embedded in library now.

7.0.3

- TextBox had a double caret in some cases.
- If TextBox was first control in console, rendering was wrong.
- Added int overload for Helpers.*Flag related methods.