Advent of Code solutions in C#
My first experiences with C# came long ago in the early 00s, but I've only started using it seriously in the last few months. I have done a handful of the AoC challenges thru the years in various languages, but in an attempt to get more comfortable with some of the exciting C# features, I'm going to try to solve all of the previous years challenges and store the results here. In the first few weeks I've already started cobbling a set of utilites and tools to make doing these challenges a bit easier.
I got tired of performing the same boring work to prep a new C# project for the next day's contest, so I took the time to learn how to make a dotnet project template. The template(s) I've created are stored in this repository in the dotnetTemplates folder. My base AoC project template creates a new project with some common imports and a little bit of hepler-class infrastructure.
To install this template for your own use, simply add it to your dotnet new list
dotnet new -i /path/to/dotnetTemplates/working/templates/aoc
To create a new AoC project, invoke the dotnet new aoc command:
dotnet new aoc --output path/to/my/project/folder --year 2019 --day 10
You'll end up with a new project called 2019_10.csproj in the folder you specified. The class will be similarly named, and automatically include the Util method invocation to fetch the input data from https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/10/input. You'll need to add a file in your repository root directory called session_cookie with the exact value of the session cookie from your signed-in adventofcode.com account.
Note: all file paths and so forth for this repository are relative to the folder containing the csproj folder. If you invoke the dotnet run command from the csproj folder, or if you run the project from Visual Studio, it should execute fine. input files will be stored in <repo_root>/inputs, and the session cookie file needs to be in the repo root folder also.
To remove the template, just uninstall with a very similar path. Note: for uninstall, the target path must be absolute, not relative
dotnet new -u /path/to/dotnetTemplates/working/templates/aoc