How can I hide a console window?

Question

Question: I have a console program that shouldn\'t be seen. (It resets IIS and deletes temp files.)

Right now I can manage to hide the window right after start like

Answer 1

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr handle);

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
private static extern bool FreeConsole();

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int nStdHandle);

// see the comment below
private enum StdHandle
{
    StdIn = -10,
    StdOut = -11,
    StdErr = -12
};

void HideConsole()
{
    var ptr = GetStdHandle((int)StdHandle.StdOut);
    if (!CloseHandle(ptr))
        throw new Win32Exception();

    ptr = IntPtr.Zero;

    if (!FreeConsole())
        throw new Win32Exception();
}

See more console-related API calls here