Hiding console window?

[beardudeguy]

how can i hide the console window for the current app? (ie not opened thru System.Diagnostics.Process)

[wildfrog]

There might be other/easier solutions to this, but anyway:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace HideConsole
{
    class Program
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        public static extern int ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);

        public const int  SW_HIDE		= 0;
        public const int SW_SHOWNORMAL		= 1;
        public const int SW_NORMAL		= 1;
        public const int SW_SHOWMINIMIZED	= 2;
        public const int SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED	= 3;
        public const int SW_MAXIMIZE		= 3;
        public const int SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE	= 4;
        public const int SW_SHOW		= 5;
        public const int SW_MINIMIZE		= 6;
        public const int SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE	= 7;
        public const int SW_SHOWNA		= 8;
        public const int SW_RESTORE		= 9;
        public const int SW_SHOWDEFAULT		= 10;
        public const int SW_FORCEMINIMIZE	= 11;
        public const int SW_MAX			= 11;

	
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // get current process
            Process p = Process.GetCurrentProcess();

            // get main windows handle (console)
            IntPtr pHandle = p.MainWindowHandle;

            // hide it
            if (ShowWindow(pHandle, SW_HIDE) == 0)
            {
                // ShowWindow failed
            }

            // show it
            if (ShowWindow(pHandle, SW_SHOW) == 0)
            {
                // ShowWindow failed
            }
        }
    }
}

- petter

[Tron]

Someone else posted this solution which worked for me.

"Create a console application and set in the project properties that it's a windows application. This will make it run in background. "