Starting MS silently

That's what I'd like to do: I need to edit some DGN-files, but I need to do it so that the user don't see the opening MS window and all the operations done by my application's code.

So, in fact, I have 2 questions:

  1. Is there any way to run MS silently (for it being invisible to user, but still fully accessible from my code)?
  2. Is there any way to start MS so that to be sure that it is a new MS window, not the one of those that are opened already? It would be even worse if I start to open, edit and close DGN-files in the window where user worked previously.

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  • Depending on specifically what you are looking to do, you might be able to take advantage of something called an InitApp, which can start MicroStation in "non-graphics" mode (or even work within a MicroStation session that has had MicroStation initialized). A number of applications that are delivered with MicroStation perform just that way and there is example source code delivered with the MicroStation SDK called InitApp that might be worth investigating.

      

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  • Depending on specifically what you are looking to do, you might be able to take advantage of something called an InitApp, which can start MicroStation in "non-graphics" mode (or even work within a MicroStation session that has had MicroStation initialized). A number of applications that are delivered with MicroStation perform just that way and there is example source code delivered with the MicroStation SDK called InitApp that might be worth investigating.

      

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