Stop Visual Studio from Closing Program After Finish

Question

This is probably an easy Visual Studio question, but I couldn't find it on the site.

When I "Start Debugging" a console program, it immediately exits when its finished. Is there any way to have it pause when it ends without putting an explicit pause command at the end of your program?

Answer 1

"Run without Debugging" does that, but I guess you want to debug still :)

Answer 2

Console.ReadKey() should do it. It will pause the execution of your program until a key is pressed on the keyboard.

Answer 3

You can place Console.ReadLine at the end of the program. That will force program to wait for a newline character input. Or you can place breakpoint at the end of the probram.

Answer 4

Add a breakpoint just before the application finishes.

Answer 5

yes as @matthew said Console.ReadKey() will wait for your input after executing program, but you can use Console.ReadLine() which will terminate only if <ENTER> key is pressed:

void main()
{
    Console.WriteLine("Hello World!"); //:)
    Console.ReadLine();//this will do the trick.
}