Hide Console Window in C# Console Application

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The thing is, I really don't want the console window to show up, but the solution should be running. My point here is, I want to keep the application running in the background, without any window coming up.

How can I do that?

console-application .net
6 Answers

Instead of Console.Readline/key you can use new ManualResetEvent(false).WaitOne() at last. This works well for me.

user_18593880

You can use user32.dll to achieve this without vscode

    class start
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
        static void Main()
        {
            IntPtr h = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle;
            ShowWindow(h, 0);
            // Do the rest

This still flashes the screen but works good enough

the usings are

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;

Note im still new to csharp and not perfect so feel free to comment and corrections!

user_159070130

Change the output type from Console Application to Windows Application,

And Instead of Console.Readline/key you can use new ManualResetEvent(false).WaitOne() at the end to keep the app running.

user_71245430
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