Currently, I am utilizing Selenium in conjunction with PowerShell to launch a dashboard display using Internet Explorer on a large office monitor. The process is initiated as follows:
$seleniumOptions = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerOptions
$seleniumOptions.BrowserCommandLineArguments = "-k"
$seleniumDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver($seleniumOptions)
Everything works perfectly fine. However, upon launching an instance of IEDriverServer.exe, a black console window appears with debug output. Is there any method to conceal this black console window?
Thank you.
UPDATE - following some guidance from sources such as this, mklement0, and JimEvans, I have assembled the following solution which seems to be effective - thank you all:
Either (for versions pre-PowerShell 5)
New-Variable -Name IEDS -Value ([OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriverService])
$defaultservice = $IEDS::CreateDefaultService()
Or (for PowerShell version 5 onwards)
$defaultservice = [OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriverService]::CreateDefaultService()
Then, input the following:
$defaultservice.HideCommandPromptWindow = $true;
Lastly,
$seleniumDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver -ArgumentList @($defaultservice, $seleniumOptions)