As I understood it this is a feature/flaw of Win32: an executable's platform is either Win32 Windows or Win32 console (or POSIX, etc), so the choice is made at compile (link) time. So you need the devenv.com/.exe approach to make it as seamless as possible.
If you can get around it, it's a major feature of .NET that needs much advertising :-) Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) P.S. On some mailing lists the gmail.com headers are forceful enough to cause replies to come to me by default rather than to the list. I believe this is one of those mailing lists... =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorĀ® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com