webdriver - ChromeDriver console application hide

Question

I have created a player which will automate chrome using selenium and ChromeDriver in C#. It's working fine.

Issue what I am facing is, when it creates an object for ChromDriver, it will start ChromeDriver application, which gets pop up and then Chrome will load. It's perfect as that application is loading that chrome for me.

Is there anyway, that I can open that ChromeDriver hidden?

Answer 1

Modifying source code in WebDriverDriverService.cs is not necessary for this in latest WebDriver. You just need to instantiate ChromeDriverService and set HideCommandPromptWindow to true and then instantiate ChromeDriver by that service and ChromeOptions. I am giving C# code example below

var chromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
chromeDriverService.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;
return new ChromeDriver(chromeDriverService,  new ChromeOptions());