Is it possible to create a console app that doesn't display a
window?

I want to create an app which runs before the main app and starts it
in another process and I don't want the console box to appear and
disappear as it does at present.

That sounds spot on. Thanks very much for your advice.

On May 27, 7:27 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nnowslpianmk.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 11:22:46 -0700, ssg31415926 <newsjunkm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to create a console app that doesn't display a
> > window?
>
> No... the OS automatically creates that for console applications.
>
> > I want to create an app which runs before the main app and starts it
> > in another process and I don't want the console box to appear and
> > disappear as it does at present.
>
> Then don't make your application a console application. Just make it a
> regular Windows application, but don't show a window. In VS, you can
> start with a console application, but then in the project settings, change
> it to a Windows application. As long as you don't actually show a window,
> no window will appear, but as a Windows application, the OS won't create a
> console window for you either.
>
> Pete