I have made a very simple Powershell script with WinForms GUI. Everything works as intended but, when I run the .ps1 script with PowerShell a black empty console window appears at first and then the GUI shows.
Anyway to make the console window dissapear?
Best regards
I wrote a small article on this subject (sorry in french) one year ago.
Here is the common solution using a small VBS script to start PowerShell hidding his window (the trick is in the last ,0).
Set Args = Wscript.Arguments
'MsgBox "Chemin LDAP: " & Args(0)
'MsgBox "Classe: " & Args(1)
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "c:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -nologo -Noninteractive -file c:\SlxRH\RhModif.ps1 " & chr(34) & Args(0) & chr(34) , 0
I also embeded PowerShell in an executable with no console called slxPShell2.EXE.
I found the above didn't work for me. I used this:
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "CMD /C START /B " & objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemRoot%") & "\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -file " & "YourScript.ps1", 0, False
Set objShell = Nothing
Hope that helps.
This solution Minimizes Powershell window after it starts. Powershell window opens, then disapears, without using any outside code. Put at beginning of your script.
$t = '[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ShowWindow(int handle, int state);'
add-type -name win -member $t -namespace native
[native.win]::ShowWindow(([System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetCurrentProcess() | Get-Process).MainWindowHandle, 0)
$hWindow = (Get-Process -id $pid).MainWindowHandle (also, shortened the code to get current process a little) only once early in my script, and pass that variable as the first ShowWindow parameter.This is how I got this working:
powershell.exe -WindowStyle Hidden -File "C:\path\to\ScriptOne.ps1".
The solution was provided in another thread on the same topic: Hide or Minimize the powershell prompt after Winform Launch
I hope someone will find a way to put this into one single script as well. The answers above in this thread did not help me, but maybe I did something wrong, idk.
I'm nube so no rep so can't comment inline... though wrt @Ipse's solution which I'm a fan of, I also make sure to close the hidden window when the script is done... not sure if PS gets around to this sort of auto-garbage collection, but suspect it's good best practice.
eg. at end of your script I'd suggest doing:
stop-process -Id $PID
(which should terminate that hidden window v. just leave it lurking around and tying up those resources).
