How do I get the handle of a console application's window

Question

Can someone tell me how to get the handle of a Windows console application in C#? In a Windows Forms application, I would normally try this.Handle.

Answer 1

In a console application which streamed diagostics to the console, and for which I wanted to disable mouse input, I tried GetConsoleWindow(), Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle, and FindWindowByCaption(IntPtr.Zero, Console.Title). Each of these returned the same non-zero handle, but when I tried to use that handle in SetConsoleMode it threw a "Invalid Handle" exception. Finally I tried SetConsoleMode(GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE), mode | ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS)) with STD_INPUT_HANDLE defined as -10, and it worked. MS's documentation suggests that handles to consoles may be reassigned, and I am not comfortable or happy with this solution, but so far it is the only thing I've found that allows me to disable quick edit mode programmatically. GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE) returns '3', the other calls return a 7 digit value that varies each time the program is run.