.Net Console Application that Doesn't Bring up a Console

Question

I have a console application I\'m using to run scheduled jobs through windows scheduler. All the communication to/from the application is in email, event logging, database l

Answer 1

Borrowed from MSDN (link text):

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);

...

         //Sometimes System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath works for the caption depending on the system you are running under.
         IntPtr hWnd = FindWindow(null, "Your console windows caption"); //put your console window caption here
         if(hWnd != IntPtr.Zero)
         {
            //Hide the window
            ShowWindow(hWnd, 0); // 0 = SW_HIDE
         }


         if(hWnd != IntPtr.Zero)
         {
            //Show window again
            ShowWindow(hWnd, 1); //1 = SW_SHOWNORMA
         }