Setting position of a Console Window opened in a WinForms App

Question

I found some source code in this thread posted by Rex Logan here on SO :

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... there\'s also some very interesting code posted in this same threa

Answer 1

you can try something like this.

This code set the position of the Console Window in a Console Application.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;


namespace ConsoleApplication10
{
  class Program
  {
    const int SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;


    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", ExactSpelling = true)]
    private static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();

    private static IntPtr MyConsole = GetConsoleWindow();

    [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetWindowPos")]
    public static extern IntPtr SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, int hWndInsertAfter, int x, int Y, int cx, int cy, int wFlags);

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      int xpos = 300;
      int ypos = 300;
      SetWindowPos(MyConsole, 0, xpos, ypos, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE);
      Console.WriteLine("any text");
      Console.Read();
    }
  }
}

This code set the position of the Console Window in a WinForm Application.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;


namespace WindowsFormsApplication10
{
  static class Program
  {

    const int SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;

    [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    private static extern bool AllocConsole();

    [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetWindowPos")]
    public static extern IntPtr SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, int hWndInsertAfter, int x, int Y, int cx, int cy, int wFlags);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    public static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();

    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
      AllocConsole();
      IntPtr MyConsole = GetConsoleWindow();
      int xpos = 1024;
      int ypos = 0;
      SetWindowPos(MyConsole, 0, xpos, ypos, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE);
      Console.WindowLeft=0;
      Console.WriteLine("text in my console");

      Application.EnableVisualStyles();
      Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
      Application.Run(new Form1());
    }
  }
}