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);
IntPtr hWnd = FindWindow(null, title);
if (hWnd != IntPtr.Zero)
{
if (!visible)
//Hide the window
ShowWindow(hWnd, 0); // 0 = SW_HIDE
else
//Show window again
ShowWindow(hWnd, 1); //1 = SW_SHOWNORMA
}
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Hide console window in console application
As you all know when you execute an console application it will load command prompt and shows out put. There are amny situation in which you do not want this console window to be dislayed to user while your application runing. You can do that by calling some unmanaged functions. I have used following method to do that which is posted by
Brendan Grant on MSDN