spectre.console VS LINQKit

I like this one for .NET https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console which I found in this list https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks.

The following code sample (a console project) uses Spectre.Console NuGet package to provide easy methods for gathering user input like first and last name of type string or perhaps birth date for a DateOnly property.

🔴 [spectre.console] A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful, cross platform, console applications.

https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console for doing pretty Cli applications

A friend and me have been working on an opinionated wrapper around the popular Spectre.Console. We call it SpectreCoff (Spectre.Console for F#).

Spectre.Console for enhanced console writting.

Add the NuGet package Spectre.Console to the project

By using open source library like Spectre.Console creating useful console applications easy. Spectre.Console also makes it easy to create dotnet tools, see documentation and check out their GitHub repository.

I also enjoy LinqKit (mentioned here). Really cool way to build a LINQ predicate.

I would suggest to install LINQKit Configure DbContextOptions: cs builder .UseSqlServer(connectionString) .WithExpressionExpanding(); // enabling LINQKit extension

Nice! At work we do something similar, but we use the predicate builder of linqkit: https://github.com/scottksmith95/LINQKit

To answer your other question, you can use something like PredicateBuilder to compose predicates for use in Where and OrderBy methods. To define your OrderBy with a boolean (or string or enum) to denote the ordering, you would have to make an extension method like so: