Customizing the title bar area of a console application

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Is it possible for me to either customize the title bar (i.e. change colour) or remove it completely?

Messing with the default style of windows in your application is: not cool, not hip, not useful, not mature. Sure, change the text to be more useful / informative, but don't do anything else. — user3791372, Apr 04 '16 at 23:12

score 29 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 28 '18 at 19:55

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Use the Console.Title property

Check out this link for an example Console.Title Property

edited Jun 28 '18 at 19:55

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answered Jun 03 '13 at 00:03

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Yh I knew about that property but it only allows you to change the text, how would I go about changing it more? and is it possible to remove it/hide it? – Clarke Abear Jun 03 '13 at 00:05
Call: Console.Title = ""; to hide the title – Luca Ziegler Oct 17 '17 at 10:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '13 at 00:19

That's not easy to do. The console window is actually handled by a separate process, conhost.exe. You'd need to persuade that process to change its behaviour which would involve gross hacks.

You can obtain the window handle readily enough and change basic properties of the window, and hope that conhost.exe doesn't change them back. But custom painting of the caption bar would involve injecting code into conhost.exe.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '14 at 22:33

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Use the SetConsoleTitle API. With P/Invoke I would guess.

answered Jan 24 '14 at 22:33

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Customizing the title bar area of a console application

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