Question

I know that you can create a separate console application, however, I am in the final stages of testing and my application does not have an interface. Is there a way to simply open a console and interact with that inside the desktop application? This would be in a test method. (I am using C#, in Visual Studio 2008).

Thanks,

badPanda

Answer 1

You might be able to do what you want using AllocConsole (creates a new console) or AttachConsole (attaches to an existing console), but I think there are some limitations to what you can do with them.

See here for the API documentation for AllocConsole and here‘s the PInvoke page.

Here‘s a list of lots of Console functions, might be something else useful there too.