I create quite often some small console application to do this or that. But the standard Console Application project is rather … empty. To prevent me from reinventing the wheel over and over again I sat down and created a more usable Console Application skeleton. The features are Functional style command line parser Console Coloring Error Handler set up (try/catch around Main and AppDomain.UnhandledException Handler) Help Clean Code No additional dependencies required. Only 20 KB of additional source ......