PowerShell, Selenium, Hide Console Output

Question

I'm using Selenium with PowerShell to launch a dashboard display in Internet Explorer on a large monitor in the office. I initiate it like so:

$seleniumOptions = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerOptions
$seleniumOptions.BrowserCommandLineArguments = "-k"

$seleniumDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver($seleniumOptions)

It all works great. However when it launches an instance of IEDriverServer.exe you see a black console window with debug output. Is there a way to hide this black console window from view?

Thanks.

UPDATE - with a little help from this, mklement0 and JimEvans I've managed to cobble this together and it appears to work - thanks all:

Either (pre-PowerShell 5)

New-Variable -Name IEDS -Value ([OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriverService])
$defaultservice = $IEDS::CreateDefaultService()

Or (PowerShell 5)

$defaultservice = [OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriverService]::CreateDefaultService()

and then

$defaultservice.HideCommandPromptWindow = $true;

and finally

$seleniumDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver -ArgumentList @($defaultservice, $seleniumOptions)

Answer 1

The .NET bindings provide a way to hide the command prompt window spawned by IEDerverServer.exe. Code demonstrating that in C# is listed below. Translating that for use with PowerShell is left as an exercise for the reader.

var service = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
service.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;

// Set IE driver options here
var options = new InternetExplorerOptions();

IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(service, options);