Behavior in WinForm/Console Hybrid Application

Question

I have a WinForm project that I want to be usable as a console app if certain arguments are passed into it. Using some tips I read from here, I used the following code to m

Answer 1

Instead of this iffy method, you can accomplish this by just creating a winforms application and not displaying the main form if a certain argument is passed on the command line.

Since a console application doesn't need a message loop, you don't call Application.Run() when called in console mode.

So your Main() would be something like:

    static void Main(params string[] args)
    {
        if (args.Length > 0 && args[0] == "consolemode")
        {
            // do stuff 
        }
        else
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new MainForm());
        }
    }

I haven't tried this but I think it would work.