How does one hide a win32 app window?

Question

I want to run the app in silent mode by passing in a parameter, otherwise I will show the window.

Answer 1

Well, for one you could just decide not to create a window at all if this parameter is passed in, otherwise you can try calling ShowWindow, with the handle to your window and with the SW_HIDE parameter, and see if that does what you need.

Another way of hiding the window and never having it show up, but still create it, is to chose to never call ShowWindow with SW_HIDE on it, and create it with CreateWindow/CreateWindowEx, and not set the WS_VISIBLE flag in the dwStyle parameter.