I am a C# teacher and I wrote some automated HW checker for my students. The students write C# Console Applications. My HW checker is based on input redirection so I can test their code on my own generated input.
The problem is that students sometimes end their program with a Console.ReadKey() instruction (They do so just to make the execution window not close when they ran the program under F5 - Debug). The Console.ReadKey() crashes when ran under input redirection with the following exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot read keys when either application does not have a console or when console input has been redirected from a file.
Do I have any way to "bypass" this problem (without altering the students code)? Maybe tell Console to ignore ReadKey instructions?
If the executables are in IL, you can create an easy application that uses ILDASM.
The key point is: disassemble the executable with ILDASM into a text file/stream, look for any call to Console.Read and remove it, than recompile it and run.