Stopping the DOS-Prompt window appearing in C#

Welshy · 24 Jun 2007 at 22:19

Hey guys, anyone know how I can stop the DOS prompt window appearing when I run my C# program?

It basically start up with no windows open, and a NotifyIcon in the tray, but this pesky prompt keeps appearing :mad:

growse · 24 Jun 2007 at 22:27

You built this in VS.NET? Did you set it up as a console project or a standard windows forms project?

MNuTz · 24 Jun 2007 at 22:30

isnt it called the console?

ive only done the 'hello world' starter program in C# and that was in the console window.

Welshy · 24 Jun 2007 at 22:38

growse said:
You built this in VS.NET? Did you set it up as a console project or a standard windows forms project?

Yes it's in VS 2005. I set it up as an empty C# project. I read somewhere that it'll always appear if it isn't a Windows application, but surely you can change that with some code?

Inquisitor · 25 Jun 2007 at 01:17

Just change the project to a Windows application and it'll go away.

Welshy · 25 Jun 2007 at 13:06

Inquisitor said:
Just change the project to a Windows application and it'll go away.

Ah thank you, I knew there must be a way

n3crius · 26 Jun 2007 at 13:39

You've created a Console project. It's useful for really minimal UI while your coding. Say you're not interested in presentation but are interested in a few stats or results, or you want a list of results easily written out for a test harness.

If you want to work with Windows Forms just make a Windows project and it will place a Form in your project and hook up the code to instantiate it etc. You can go from there.