---
title: "Coding tips and tricks by Eric Gunnerson"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/18/coding-tips-and-tricks-by-eric-gunnerson.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/18/coding-tips-and-tricks-by-eric-gunnerson.html"
published: "2003-08-18T05:42:00"
updated: "2003-08-18T05:42:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles", "Tips & Tricks"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here is a nice article by Eric Gunnerson with various tips and tricks. I really liked the first one : “What is the difference between a Windows Forms project and a Console Application project? The somewhat surprising…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Coding tips and tricks by Eric Gunnerson

By Roy Osherove August 18, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles), [Tips & Tricks](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tips-tricks)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 18, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Here is a nice article](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/Csharp01212002.asp) by Eric Gunnerson with various tips and tricks. I really liked the first one :

_“What is the difference between a Windows Forms project and a Console Application project?_

_The somewhat surprising answer is not much. The only real difference is that a Console application sends output to a Console Window, and a Windows Form application doesn't. However, this is only the default behavior. There's no reason a Windows Forms application can't have a console window._

_Enabling the console window is easy. From Microsoft Visual Studio®, right-click on the project and choose **Properties**. Change the output type from **Windows Application** to **Console Application**. Or, from the command line, use `/target:exe` instead of `/target:winexe`._

_I've found this to be fairly useful when debugging my applications, and it's easy to turn off the console application when you're done. “_

I did not know that! how very cool!

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