Can I convert a Windows App to a Console App

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I have code for a windows app with one form, Can I convert this to a console app using no forms? If so, yhen how?
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DS

Posted 24-Apr-11 5:01am

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Solution 1

Just try google for this
convert a Windows App to a Console App[^]

Posted 24-Apr-11 5:08am

santosh dhanawade

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Member 7766180 24-Apr-11 11:58am

Will look around, it seems that it can be done but not too easy, Fortunately I only have one form.
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DS

XgenX 15-Oct-21 14:00pm

This is a disappointing "answer" for someone who found this by googling for that phrase, no? "Google your question" is not still considered an answer, is it? If it ever was.

Solution 3

You can change the project settings to create a Console Application instead of a Windows Application (just hit Ctrl+Enter on the project in the Solution Window, and make that change).

That will compile the application as a Console Application, and you'll get a console. However, you'll still get your forms. If you want to not have Windows Forms, you'll need to remove the forms, and replace their functionality with command line arguments or configuration. You can then remove the Windows Forms references, and it'll be converted.
I've copied it from
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3427089[here] answered by Reed Copsey

Posted 12-Jul-12 3:23am

kandikov

Updated 12-Jul-12 3:24am

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Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-24T05:14:00

Of course you can. You would need to replace the UI with a console based UI. So any info you have on screen would have to be written to the console. And all forms of input would also come from the console. The core flow of the app may also change a bit because of the different input/output models between GUI and console apps.

There is no automatic conversion tool though as far as I know.