Question

Is there a way to check whether a program is in console or windows mode from within the application itself? I know that Read and ReadLine can somehow detect this, but how?

Answer 1

You should be able to check to see if Console.In == StreamReader.Null;

If this is true, there is no console attached. For example, the following works properly for this:

public static bool IsConsoleApplication
{
    get { return Console.In != StreamReader.Null; }
}