Clearing the Console

mightymiracleman

I can't believe I haven't been able to find any way to clear the console screen in vb.net. All I want is to clear the console screen just like issuing a cls command at a command prompt. Does anyone out there know how this is done?

Mike Dimmick

You could try P/Invoke'ing the FillConsoleOutputCharacter function. See MSDN Library for details.

mightymiracleman

Thank you! I found it in the MSDN libraries url is http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B319239 if anyone is interested. A WHOLE lot of work just to clear the console, I can't believe they didn't include this functionality in the Console namespace. Oh well, maybe next time. Thanks again!

Mike Dimmick

If it's any consolation (no pun intended), there's no function for this that I can see in the C runtime library either - I was going to look at the implementation if there was one. In case anyone else wants that article, clickety[^].

Richard Deeming

Have a look at Tim Sneath's sample on GotDotNet for some of the missing console functions: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=b76d1f08-2d79-47bd-825b-0489938aae0f[^]

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