.Net Console Application that Doesn't Bring up a Console

Question

I have a console application I'm using to run scheduled jobs through windows scheduler. All the communication to/from the application is in email, event logging, database logs. Is there any way I can suppress the console window from coming up?

Answer 1

Sure. Build it as a winforms app and never show your form.

Just be careful, because then it's not really a console app anymore, and there are some environments where you won't be able to use it.

Answer 2

Borrowed from MSDN (link text):

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;  ...       [DllImport("user32.dll")]       public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName,string lpWindowName);        [DllImport("user32.dll")]       static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);  ...           //Sometimes System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath works for the caption depending on the system you are running under.          IntPtr hWnd = 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          }            if(hWnd != IntPtr.Zero)          {             //Show window again             ShowWindow(hWnd, 1); //1 = SW_SHOWNORMA          }