C#: Is it possible to have a single application behave as Console or Windows application depending on switches?

Question

I have a simple application that I would like to sort of automate via switches. But when I do run it via switches I don\'t really want a user interface showing. I just want

Answer 1

I believe the answer is no, or it was last time I looked into this problem.

The executable is marked as either a windowed application or a console application. You can see this in the properties for you project in Visual Studio, under application, Output type

You could simulate the behavior by having two application, a console application that if executed with no arguments launches the GUI application. You may see a console window flash, unless you ran in from an already open console.