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How do I get file paths of items dropped onto a console application window?

I'd like to be able to let users drag and drop files onto my console app's window so they are not forced to drag'n'drop files onto the app's icon (or link, or even worse write a command line in console). How do I get the list of paths of files I drop onto my app's window?

You can just listen for the keyboard. When dragging a file onto a console window the window gets keyboard events as if the file name was entered directly.
That's how you can drop a file on a cmd or PowerShell window and get the full file name as if entered directly and it works the same for your own applications too.

A console application doesn't own its window, csrss.exe does. As a result, even if you locate the window HANDLE, you won't be able to register for drag-and-drop or handle drop messages. Your console application is therefore limited to the types of messages forwarded by csrss.exe through the Console API. They are listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683499.aspx Drag-and-drop isn't among them, although mouse event inside the console are.
Your best bet is probably to make an application that LOOKS like a console application, but doesn't use a Windows console. Instead you'd draw text and a cursor on the screen and take keyboard input, creating a command-line interface.
This sort of thing is called a "console emulator", and you can probably find one already built that meets your needs.

You cant because console application has no window. It has standard input, output and error streams.
Window that contain console application is window of CMD application (cmd.exe) and you cant change fundamental behaviors of windows console.
CMD works like terminal (putty, telnet, ssh etc.) - it sends characters from keyboard to application (precisely - it sends characters to "standard input") and displays characters generated by "standard output" of application.
Read a little about standard streams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams
Behavior of CMD.exe under my Windows 7
I can pass filename (with full path) from drag/drop. Dropping one "file icon" on cmd window will "type" filename - but there is no CR/LF (line feed) character, so "readline" function will not work.
Dropping multiple file icons will pass only one file.
Sorry, if i made some language mistakes.

How to open particular directory dialog box?

I'm developing a program in c# im stuck with this issue.
I want to show dialog box which refers to a particular directory.
I know that there is OpenDialogFolder and SaveDialog, but I don't want to save or open any files what I want is just to open a specific directory dialog box.
Like this screenshot:

It looks like you just want to open a copy of Windows Explorer. You can do that by simply calling Process.Start() and specifying just a folder path with no filename:
Process.Start(#"C:\Temp\");
The default behavior of the Windows shell, given a command like this on the command line (or a shortcut or a Run command) is to open Windows Explorer to show the contents of the specified path.
Now, Windows Explorer is an external process, which you are launching and then letting it do its thing. It therefore won't behave exactly like a modal dialog box, like preventing the dialog losing focus to another window. However, you can mimic the "can't do anything else with the application" behavior of a dialog by assigning the result of Process.Start (a Process) to a variable, then calling the WaitForExit() method on that Process with no parameters. This will block the application's main thread until the user closes the Explorer window you opened. It's not perfect; by blocking the thread, the application will not respond to any requests to draw itself or do any other basic things that even a dialog-interrupted window will still do, and you can still technically "activate" the window you used to launch Windows Explorer which will bring it in front of Windows Explorer. The Explorer window can also be minimized (something dialogs don't normally allow) and there isn't much you can do to prevent that.

Disable prompts in Windows Forms Webbrowser

I have a C# application which uses a System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.
The problem is: i'd like the user to navigate smoothly in my application, without prompts, without javascript windows popping up, without security prompts. Even if this requires some contents to be unavailable.
I just want to have one window (always one window, if a receive a new window event, i redirect it to the single window).
How can i do this?
I tried to use this.browser.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true but i doesnt seem to work.
For example, if i test it on a browser page which performs text validation, i still receive a popup window saying that my text is invalid.
Thank you!

I've found a solution somewhere else, since it wasn't available here.
Here it is: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31163/Suppressing-Hosted-WebBrowser-Control-Dialogs
Basically, you have to hook the WM_INITDIALOG message.
It works wonders here.

How to handle embedded flash active x control script errors?

I have a winForm panel that has a flash ative x control embedded in it. This works pretty well.
I load the form, add the flash control to the form, then load the .swf file that I wish to play. However, I have a few issues. There is a button in the swf file that is loaded that is marked with an 'x' to denot that it should close the flash plugin.
When this button is clicked it pops an internet explorer window and then shows an error dialog box that says: "Internet Explorer cannot download . Unspecified error"
There is also a 'Continue' button in the flash movie that shows when the movie is over, and it produces the same behavior when the button is clicked.
For this project we are trying to aviod the usage of the WebBrowser control to host the flash video.
Does anyone have any solutions that would allow the application to handle a call that opens a new internet explorer window?
EDIT: I have found more details as to what specifically the issue is. The flash file (.swf) has an embedded call to IE:
javascript:window.close()
This particular call is causing the IE window to pop and then fail. We do not have the ability to change the flash file, is there anyway to handle this call from the windows form and stop it from happening?

Did you steal this SWF?
But to answer you change your embed code.
attributes.allowscriptaccess = "never"

How do i close all open windows from my C# program?

Hi i have a windows application where i show a webbrowser, i have a button that removes the browser (its a preview) and goes to another "view" in my application (another tab). My problem is that my users are getting advanced, they build HTML with links (and its ok) but the links may spawn new browser windows (IExplorer), and my button needs to close these windows, but how?
I have made some code to traverse all eht windows that ends with "Windows Internet Explorer", ahd it all seems to work - but how do i close them? I am trying to do it like this:
SendMessage((int)hWnd, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0);
It seems to work, but the browser pops up a dialog asking me if i want to close the tab of all the tabs...how to work around/solve this?
Cheers,

walking over all top level iE windows and closing them is a bad idea, unless you are guaranteed users can't launch ie and browse the Internet on their own. Otherwise, you might actually lose user data (say an email or a blog post the user has been working on in the last half an hour)
You can't easily work around that dialog without modifying the per-user IE settings. Your other option is to look for that dialog and click the yes button, but that would be fragile and is not guaranteed to continue working if the user upgrades to IE9.
You could potentially prevent opening links in new window by listening to BeforeNavigate event and allowing only navigations that are guaranteed to happen in your control. However, there are scenarios where IE might still decide to open new window.