What happens when starting a .NET console application?

Question

What exactly happens when a .NET console application starts?

In the process explorer, when starting the exe I am wondering why I cannot see a "cmd.exe" process as a parent process for the console application. What exactly is displayed then?

Is there a way to replace the "default" console window by another one? I guess this would mean modifying the "console subsystem".

Creating a GUI application instead of a console application is not an option as I do not have the source of all possible tools.

Observation:

• With Mono and Linux, I have no issue at all regarding this and my test app!
• The font used has an influence, I cannot find a font that fits for everything (even with asia pack installed)
• Tweaking (Changing font, sizes, ...) in registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console is having an impact and can be defined per executable.

Answer 1

Try to set the Console.OutputEncoding property.

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

This will effectively call the Win32 native SetConsoleOutputCP function setting the console code page to the CodePage property of the specified encoding.