GUI / Console Subsystem application

This project showcases how a program can both run as a console project and as a Windows native application.

The program is just a Windows application in reality, but it calls AttachConsole() to get a hold of the current console and act as a valid Console Subsystem program.

AttachConsole() returns immediately so the trick to block the console is to wrap the executable in a launcher script - mm.cmd here.

Build and Run

Open the .sln in Visual Studio and build it. To run either:

• double click the resulting Metamorph.exe to run it as a GUI application

• from a console, run the mm.cmd script in from the Metamorph.exe output directory. Redirects work across the different terminals as expected:

  .\mm.cmd foobar > .\foo.txt 2>&1