How do I get the handle of a console application's window

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Grant picture Grant · Aug 14, 2009 · Viewed 50.2k times · Source

Can someone tell me how to get the handle of a Windows console application in C#? In a Windows Forms application, I would normally try this.Handle.

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Thomas Levesque picture Thomas Levesque · Aug 14, 2009

Not sure it works, but you can try that :

IntPtr handle = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle;

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