How to hide the black console window of Selenium that appear before opening chrome

Question

I want to hide the black console window of Selenium that appear before opening chrome and surfing the website Any Idea ?

this is my code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace DODemo1.UserControls
{
    public partial class DashboardUC : UserControl
    {
        public DashboardUC()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            var options = new ChromeOptions();
            var chromeDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);
            chromeDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://website.com");

        }

    }
}

Any idea ?

yup Selenium , so can i have an idea what should i do to hide this black console ? — Dr.Mezo, Jun 02 '18 at 18:28

user298438 · Answer 1 · 2018-06-15T23:04:33.723

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Add

this.driverServiceProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

to your code.

edited Jun 15 '18 at 23:04

answered Jun 02 '18 at 16:52

user298438

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It's Selenium Chrome Driver doing it not that the app may be a console app or not – Jun 02 '18 at 17:01
yup Selenium , so can i have an idea what should i do to hide this black console ? – Dr.Mezo Jun 02 '18 at 18:28
@Dr.Mezo Try other answered that are related. – user298438 Jun 02 '18 at 19:28
I had edited this answer to match Selenium. – user298438 Jun 15 '18 at 23:05

How to hide the black console window of Selenium that appear before opening chrome

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