Thread: making a window

I want to make a window (not just selecting a windows form either) from code.

The peices of code I got so far are this:

my using statements

Code:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

starting code or somthing

Code:

namespace FormTest
{
public class FeaturedForm : Form

and ending code I belive

Code:

static void Main()
{
Application.Run(new FeaturedForm());
}

I also saw you can add STAThread before static void main()

so with that how do I make a window apear?

Ok I have made a window but now I got the black console window behind the window. How do I get rid of or make it so the console window doen't apear.

alright well than the problem is, I am using code DOM. I want the program be able to make a windows program and that is the hard part.

When you call the compiler in the CSharpCodeDomProvider (I think) you pass in a number of options - one is whether or not to create an exe, one is whether to create a console or Win32 program.

Code:

	// Create an instance of the CSharpCodeProvider class.
	Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
	// Call the CodeDomProvider.CreateCompiler() method to obtain an ICodeCompiler from the provider.
	System.CodeDom.Compiler.ICodeCompiler compiler = provider.CreateCompiler();

    CompilerParameters cp = new CompilerParameters(referenceAssemblies,
                                                   exeFile, false);
    // Generate an executable rather than a DLL file.
    cp.GenerateExecutable = true;            

    cp.CompilerOptions += "/target=winexe";

    // Invoke compilation.
    CompilerResults cr = compiler.CompileAssemblyFromFile(cp, sourceFile);

I believe that is what is needed - /target=winexe is a parameter to the 'csc' C# compiler that says to make a Windows file.

You were close, it is

/t:winexe

Found that after I knew what I was looking for.

Thank you!

Ahh sorry my mistake, I used the .NET 2.0 CSC, where it's /target:winexe or /t:winexe. Glad to help