Hidden Command Line

[evoroel]

Hi

I've written a small command line report tool that reports to a web service.

I have scheduled this tool to run every 10 minutes using Scheduled Tasks.

So every 10 minutes I get a dos box when the tool is started.

To solve this I use a freeware app speedup.exe. This app sets the window hidden.

I'm sure this could be done from inside the report tool as well, but I did not find this.

I have found the WindowStyle attribute but I'm not able to set this for the running application.

Any pointers?

Tnx
evoroel

 

[obislavu]

Here is an example of using the Process class to start a process with no window (CreateNoWindow) and without using the shell operating system (UseShellExecute = false). I uncommented some lines that could be used when you want that process to rise events and capture them.

string workingDirectory=".....";
string myExe ="myapp.exe";
string cm ="/all /nodump";
System.Diagnostics.Process P = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
//P.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
P.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
P.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = WorkingDirectory;
P.StartInfo.FileName =  WorkingDirectory + "\\" + myExe;
P.StartInfo.Arguments = cm;						
//P.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
P.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
//P.Exited += new EventHandler(captureStdout);
try
{
P.Start();
}
catch(Exception exProcess)
{
}


//private void captureStdout(object sender, EventArgs e) 
//{      
//	System.Diagnostics.Process ps = (System.Diagnostics.Process) sender;      
	//string s = ps.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

//}

-obislavu-

 

[evoroel]

Yes, I figured this out myself (found some examples as well) but it's not what I'm looking for.

I want the current process to start hidden, not create a new process first.

 

[chiph]

evoroel -
In your public static Main method, just don't create the form if you don't want a visual interface.

Chip H.


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[evoroel]

It is allready a command line application, so there are no forms created.