Player head as console icon

For Windows only
Idea from TNT-UP

MinecraftClient/ConsoleIcon.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Net;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Drawing;
+
+namespace MinecraftClient
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Allow to set the player skin as console icon, on Windows only.
+    /// See StackOverflow no. 2986853
+    /// </summary>
+
+    public static class ConsoleIcon
+    {
+        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
+        private static extern bool SetConsoleIcon(IntPtr hIcon);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Asynchronously download the player's skin and set the head as console icon
+        /// </summary>
+
+        public static void setPlayerIconAsync(string playerName)
+        {
+            Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(delegate
+            {
+                if (!Program.isUsingMono) //Windows Only
+                {
+                    HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/" + playerName + ".png");
+
+                    try
+                    {
+                        using (HttpWebResponse httpWebReponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse())
+                        {
+                            Bitmap skin = new Bitmap(Image.FromStream(httpWebReponse.GetResponseStream())); //Read skin from network
+                            skin = skin.Clone(new Rectangle(8, 8, 8, 8), skin.PixelFormat); //Crop skin
+                            SetConsoleIcon(skin.GetHicon()); //Set skin as icon
+                        }
+                    }
+                    catch (WebException) { } //Skin not found
+                }
+            }
+            ));
+            t.Name = "Player skin icon setter";
+            t.Start();
+        }
+    }
+}