title: How to make a windowless / command-line application return but continue executing in background?
body: <p>I'm writing a command-line application in .Net. The app itself is fairly simple, but it has to connect synchronously to a web-service, which in turn has to connect to a Oracle database, and <em>those</em> pieces are fond of taking their time.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a straightforward way (without dividing my app exe in two) to continue executing but nonetheless yield execution to the command prompt?</p>
  
  <p>It's Windows, so no "&amp;". Also, I cannot use cmd.exe's "start" cmdlet.</p>