Console window displays at WinForm startup (C#)

Question

This is a minor bug (one I'm willing to live with in the interest of go-live, frankly), but I'm wondering if anyone else has ideas to fix it.

I have a C# WinForms application. When the app is launched via the executable (not via the debugger), the first thing the user sees is a console window, followed by the main window (after pre-loading is complete.)

I'd like to not display the console window. (Like I said, it's a minor bug.)

The project output is already set to Windows Application.

Here's (most of) the code for the Main() method. I've snipped out various proprietary/security related stuff, replacing it with comments where appropriate.

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    try
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

        // SNIP: Get username from Windows, associate with DB user

        if (user == null || user.UID == 0 || (user.Active.HasValue && !(user.Active.Value)))
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ErrorStrings.UnknownUser, ErrorStrings.TitleBar, MessageBoxButtons.OK,
                MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            Application.Exit();
            return;
        }

        // SNIP: Associate user with employee object    

        Application.Run(new MainForm());
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        if (ExceptionPolicy.HandleException(ex, UiStrings.ExceptionPolicy))
        {
            string message = ErrorStrings.UnhandledPreface + ex.ToString();
            MessageBox.Show(message, ErrorStrings.TitleBar, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            Application.Exit();
        }
    }
}

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

My first guess would be to double check your Project Property settings and make sure that the output type is Windows Application and not Console Application.