How to hide the Console Application in C#
By FoxLearn 6/8/2024 3:07:47 AM 8.4K
To hide a console application in C#, you can utilize the ShowWindow function from the user32.dll library to hide the console window programmatically.
How to hide the Console Application in C#
Open your Visual Studio, then Click New Project, then select Visual C# on the left, then Windows and then select Console Application. Name your project "HideConsole" and then click OK
Adding code to Program class as shown below.
[DllImport("Kernel32.dll")] private static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow(); [DllImport("User32.dll")] private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int cmdShow); static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Press any key to hide me."); Console.ReadKey(); // Get the handle to the console window IntPtr hWnd = GetConsoleWindow(); if (hWnd != IntPtr.Zero) { // Hide the console window ShowWindow(hWnd, 0); Thread.Sleep(5000);//5s // Show the console window ShowWindow(hWnd, 1); } Console.ReadKey(); }
This code hides the console window immediately after the program starts running. However, the console window is still running in the background. If you need to hide the window at a specific point in your application, you can call ShowWindow(hWndConsole, SW_HIDE)
at that point.
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