Public/Show-Console.ps1
function Show-Console { param( [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Hide')] [switch]$Hide, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowNormal')] [switch]$ShowNormal, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowMinimized')] [switch]$ShowMinimized, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowMaximized')] [switch]$ShowMaximized, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Maximize')] [switch]$Maximize, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowNormalNoActivate')] [switch]$ShowNormalNoActivate, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Show')] [switch]$Show, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Minimize')] [switch]$Minimize, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowMinNoActivate')] [switch]$ShowMinNoActivate, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowNoActivate')] [switch]$ShowNoActivate, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='Restore')] [switch]$Restore, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ShowDefault')] [switch]$ShowDefault, [Parameter(ParameterSetName='ForceMinimized')] [switch]$ForceMinimized ) Begin { if (!('Console.Window' -as [type])) { # .Net methods for hiding/showing the console in the background Add-Type -Name Window -Namespace Console -MemberDefinition ' [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")] public static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow(); [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 nCmdShow); ' } } Process { $sval = switch($PsCmdlet.ParameterSetName) { 'Hide' {'0'} 'ShowNormal' {'1'} 'ShowMinimized' {'2'} 'ShowMaximized' {'3'} 'Maximize' {'3'} 'ShowNormalNoActivate' {'4'} 'Show' {'5'} 'Minimize' {'6'} 'ShowMinNoActivate' {'7'} 'ShowNoActivate' {'8'} 'Restore' {'9'} 'ShowDefault' {'10'} 'ForceMinimized' {'11'} 'Default' {throw 'Error has occured while assigning numerial values'} } $null = [Console.Window]::ShowWindow([Console.Window]::GetConsoleWindow(), $sval) } } |