How do I include a console in Winforms?

Question

I would like to have a console window embedded in a Winform. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

All you need to do is call the windows API function AllocConsloe then use the normal console class here is the form code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace waTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]
        static extern Boolean AllocConsole( );

        public Form1( )
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e )
        {
            if ( !AllocConsole() )
                 MessageBox.Show("Failed");
            Console.WriteLine("test");
            string input = Console.ReadLine();
            MessageBox.Show(input);
        }
    }
}