Application.Current "null" in console application

Just to offer an alternative solution. It is possible to keep an application running without any windows open. To me this feels less 'hackish'. :) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.application.shutdownmode.aspx

public class AppCode : Application
{
   // Entry point method
   [STAThread]
   public static void Main()
   {
      AppCode app = new AppCode();
      app.ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown;
      app.Run();
      ...
      app.Shutdown();
   }
}

EDIT: Ok this got a bit cumbersome. Application.Run will block, so it needs to run in its own thread. When it does run in its own thread, any interaction between your main thread and your ui thread had best be done by Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke. Here is some working code, that assumes you have a class that inherits from Application. I'm using a modified App.xaml/App.xaml.cs that a WPF project template creates for you, to get nice handling of ResourceDictionaries for free.

public class Program
{
  // Entry point method
  [STAThread]
  public static void Main()
  {
     var thread = new System.Threading.Thread(CreateApp);
     thread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA);
     thread.Start();

     // This is kinda shoddy, but the thread needs some time 
     // before we can invoke anything on the dispatcher
     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);

     // In order to get input from the user, display a
     // dialog and return the result on the dispatcher
     var result = (int)Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(new Func<int>(() =>
        {
           var win = new MainWindow();
           win.ShowDialog();
           return 10;
        }), null);

     // Show something to the user without waiting for a result
     Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(new Action(() =>
     {
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