[c#] Show Console in Windows Application?

Check this source code out. All commented code – used to create a console in a Windows app. Uncommented – to hide the console in a console app. From here. (Previously here.) Project reg2run.

// Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Alexander Batishchev (abatishchev at gmail.com)

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Reg2Run
{
    static class ManualConsole
    {
        #region DllImport
        /*
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        private static extern bool AllocConsole();
        */

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr handle);

        /*
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern IntPtr CreateFile([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]string fileName, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int desiredAccess, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int shareMode, IntPtr securityAttributes, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int creationDisposition, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int flagsAndAttributes, IntPtr templateFile);
        */

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        private static extern bool FreeConsole();

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]int nStdHandle);

        /*
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError = true)]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        private static extern bool SetStdHandle(int nStdHandle, IntPtr handle);
        */
        #endregion

        #region Methods
        /*
        public static void Create()
        {
            var ptr = GetStdHandle(-11);
            if (!AllocConsole())
            {
                throw new Win32Exception("AllocConsole");
            }
            ptr = CreateFile("CONOUT$", 0x40000000, 2, IntPtr.Zero, 3, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
            if (!SetStdHandle(-11, ptr))
            {
                throw new Win32Exception("SetStdHandle");
            }
            var newOut = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput());
            newOut.AutoFlush = true;
            Console.SetOut(newOut);
            Console.SetError(newOut);
        }
        */

        public static void Hide()
        {
            var ptr = GetStdHandle(-11);
            if (!CloseHandle(ptr))
            {
                throw new Win32Exception();
            }
            ptr = IntPtr.Zero;
            if (!FreeConsole())
            {
                throw new Win32Exception();
            }
        }
        #endregion
    }
}