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Question: I have a console program that shouldn’t be seen.
(It resets IIS and deletes temp files.)

Right now I can manage to hide the window right after start like this:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var currentProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
    Console.WriteLine(currentProcess.MainWindowTitle);

    IntPtr hWnd = currentProcess.MainWindowHandle;//FindWindow(null, "Your console windows caption"); //put your console window caption here
    if (hWnd != IntPtr.Zero)
    {
        //Hide the window
        ShowWindow(hWnd, 0); // 0 = SW_HIDE
    }

The problem is this shows the window for a blink of a second.
Is there any constructor for a console program, where I can hide the window before it is shown?

And second:

I use

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);

and I don’t like the 32 in it. Is there any way to do this without DllImport ?
A .NET way ?

Answer 1

If you don’t need the console (e.g. for Console.WriteLine) then change the applications build options to be a Windows application.

This changes a flag in the .exe header so Windows doesn’t allocate a console session when the application starts.