Welcome to the Windows Console documentation repo. The MSDN Console Docs are generated from the markdown stored in this repo. The published docs can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/console/

For code issues related to the Windows Console, Windows Terminal, and related command-line and terminal tooling products acquired with Windows, from the Windows Store, or other sources like GitHub, please check out the microsoft/terminal repository.

Each content page in this repo requires some metadata expressed as YAML, stored at the top of each doc between '---' markers. For example:

---
title: About Consoles
description: Consoles provide high-level support for simple character-mode applications that interact with the user by using functions that read from standard input and write to standard output or standard error.
author: miniksa
ms.author: miniksa
ms.assetid: 39204f0e-b0b8-4f92-af8e-e146ac06c454
ms.topic: article
---

# About Consoles

Consoles provide high-level support for ...

Notes on metadata:

• author: Main article author
• ms.author: Additional co-authors / contributors / editors
• ms.assetid: UUID used by BI for reporting and analysis. Generated by CAPS for existing content, auto-generated by OPS in future
• ms.topic: One of [article | get-started-article | hero-article | hub-page | landing-page | non-content | reference | search] (see this Excel workbook for current valid values).

While some metadata is stored per file (e.g. above), common metadata required by all files within a documentation set (docset) is stored in the docfx.json file in the root of the docs folder, e.g.:

  "build": {
    #...
    "fileMetadata": {
      "ms.prod": { "/console/**.yml": "windows"},
      "ms.technology": { "/console/**.yml": "desktop"},
      "manager": {"/console/**.yml": "miniksa"}
    }
  }
}

The values for ms.prod and ms.technology are standard for Win32 API's & desktop technology, as defined in the Excel workbook above. Custom values can be registered if required.