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Creating a process and toggling its visibility?

Ken

Hi. I want to be able to launch a process, say Notepad, and have it visible. I want to then be able to hit a button on my C# form and have the process toggle visibility. I have a program that runs in a DOS window and I don't like having it on my taskbar all the time, which is the inspiration for my app. I could use something like TaskEverything, but I prefer to roll my own whenever possible.

Is that possible? Thanks!

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
If your program is a DOS program, then you are not using Visual Studio and you are not using C# since neither of those support DOS. It is very difficult to control a DOS window from a Windows program.

There is no such thing as visibility of processes; visibility is a property of windows but not processes, unless you define visibility based on whether a process has a visible window.