In VB 2005, how to display a Console Window prorgramatically?

[Jimdeb03]

How do you display a Console Window prorgramatically? I'm in Visual Basic 2005

Setting Application Type: to Console Application causes the console window to appear first when the program starts.

I'd like the Console to appear after the Main form appears and to make it invisible through a button click.

But I notice too if the Console window is closed, the application shuts down. Is there any way to circumvent this from occurring?

All I need the console for is monitoring the app. I tried dumping the logging info into a ListBox on the main form but have trouble passing log info back from the Class(s) to the Form.

Thanks
JIm

 

[RiverGuy]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe")