In my current project, we have a console app that runs in the background and sends data to a frontend application. The app works great but sometimes it stops working and we need to press a key for it to continue. It turned out it was because of Windows Console's Quick Mode feature. When a user clicks on the console window, it hangs the app execution to allow the user to select the text..
Fortunately, you can easily disable Quick Edit for your app:
// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686033(VS.85).aspx [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern bool SetConsoleMode(IntPtr hConsoleHandle, uint dwMode); private const uint ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS = 0x0080; private static void DisableQuickEditMode() { // Disable QuickEdit Mode // Quick Edit mode freezes the app to let users select text. // We don't want that. We want the app to run smoothly in the background. // - https://stackoverflow.com/q/4453692 // - https://stackoverflow.com/a/4453779 // - https://stackoverflow.com/a/30517482 IntPtr handle = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle; SetConsoleMode(handle, ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS); } public static void Main(string[] args) { DisableQuickEditMode(); // Do stuff } 
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Not working for me, Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowsHandle return 0
I found this entre that works like a charm:
stackoverflow.com/questions/136568...