Hello,

I wrote an application that simply writes some variables to a file. Is there anyone to run this program without the console window appearing at all? Right now you can see the console window open for about half a second and then close. I made sure to remove any code that outputs to the console. I am using MS Visual Studio 2005 and have strated with an empty c++ project.

Thanks,
Tim

You can create a Windows (GUI) application instead, and just not create a window. The only difference is the signature of main(). It is this instead:
hInstance is a handle to the instance of your application. You don't need this unless you create a window.
hPrevInstance hasn't been used since 16-bit Windows.
lpCmdLine (NB: LPSTR means char*) is the arguments passed to your program. If you need the arguments in the argv/argc format like you'd have with a regular console program, use the function CommandLineToArgvW.
nCmdShow is a hint about whether the app's main window should be maximized or restored; obviously you can ignore this.

P.S.: You might have to include windows.h.
P.P.S.: I don't use MSVC, but there might be an option somewhere else to just not create a console instead of creating a full-fledged GUI project.