console-application

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 it to run, do it's job, print stuff out in the console, and exit. On the other hand if I don't run it with any switches I want the user interface to pop up. And in this case I don't really want a console window hanging around in the background. Is there any way I can do this, or do I have to create two separate projects, one Console Application and one Windows Application? Whilst not exactly what you have asked, I've

I have some problems with the handling of CTRL + C events, in a Win32 C++ console program. Basically my program looks like this: (based on this other question: Windows Ctrl-C - Cleaning up local stack objects in command line app ) bool running; int main() { running = true; SetConsoleCtrlHandler((PHANDLER_ROUTINE) consoleHandler, TRUE); while (running) { // do work ... } // do cleanup ... return 0; } bool consoleHandler(int signal) { if (signal == CTRL_C_EVENT) { running = false; } return true; } The problem is the cleanup code not being executed at all. After the execution of the handler

I want to run a console application (eg app.exe) from a windows form load event. I'v tried System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(), But after it opens app.exe, it closes it immidiately. Is there any way that I can run app.exe and leave it open? If you are just wanting the console window to stay open, you could run it with something like this command: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( @"cmd.exe", @"/k c:\path\my.exe" ); Try doing this: string cmdexePath = @"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"; //notice the quotes around the below string... string myApplication = "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\ftp.exe\""; //the