Console in Windows Application

[Pengyu]

Hi,

How to add a console window to a Windows application?

Thank you very much in advance,

Pengyu

 

[William Stacey]

These may be useful:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/winconsole.asp
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/May/ExtendSysConsole.asp

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William Stacey, MVP

I want my .NET GUI program has a window for Console and can communicate with
the Console.

Thank you very much!

Pengyu

 

[Richard Grimes [MVP]]

Hi,

How to add a console window to a Windows application?

Thank you very much in advance,

Pengyu

What do you want to do with the console window? Do you merely want to
provide a command prompt? If so, then you can do this:

Process.Start("cmd.exe");

If you want to communicate between the command prompt and the .NET GUI
application then you'll have a lot more work to do. Without knowing what you
want to do I cannot say any more.

Richard

 

[Pengyu Hong]

I want my .NET GUI program has a window for Console and can communicate with
the Console.

Thank you very much!

Pengyu

 

[Ayende Rahien]

Do something like this (not tested):
ProccessInfo pi = new ProccessInfo("cmd.exe");
pi.RedirectStandardError=true;
pi.RedirectStandardInput=true;
pi.RedirectStandardOutput=true;
Process cmd = Process.Start(pi);
cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("Dir");
MessageBox.Show(cmd.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

Watch out for deadlocks, those method are blocking!

I want my .NET GUI program has a window for Console and can communicate with
the Console.

Thank you very much!

Pengyu

 

[Vijaye Raji]

Try "AttachConsole" API.

-vJ

I want my .NET GUI program has a window for Console and can communicate with
the Console.

Thank you very much!

Pengyu