How to start WPF based on Arguments

Question

I'm currently developing an application that does some file manipulation and I want to be able to do the manipulation through the console or via an UI (I chose WPF).

I pretty much want to say: (psuedo)

if ( Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().Length > 0 )
{
    //Do not Open WPF UI, Instead do manipulate based
    //on the arguments passed in
}
else
{
    //Open the WPF UI
}

I've read about a few different ways of starting the WPF Window/application programmatically like:

Application app = new Application ();
app.Run(new Window1());

But I'm not entirely sure I want to just plug this into a Console Application.

Does anyone have best practices or recommendations on how I can achieve this? The main processing functionality is in a Helper class I created. So basically I either want a static start method (like standard Console Application creates) or the UI to access the Helper class depending on the arguments passed in.

How to start WPF based on Arguments

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