How to stop C console applications from closing automatically

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My console applications on Visual Studio are closing automatically  so I d like to use something like C s system  PAUSE   to  pause  the applications at the end of its execution  how can I achieve that

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If you do not want the program to close even if a user presses anykey     while  true          System Console ReadKey                         This wont stop app

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Console ReadLine   to wait for the user to Enter or Console ReadKey to wait for any key

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Try Ctrl   F5 in Visual Studio to run your program  this will add a pause with  Press any key to continue     automatically without any Console Readline   or ReadKey   functions

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Console ReadLine      or   Console ReadKey      ReadLine   waits for    ReadKey   waits for any key  except for modifier keys    Edit  stole the key symbol from Darin

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Use   Console ReadKey      For it to close when someone presses any key  or   Console ReadLine      For when the user types something and presses enter

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Alternatively  you can delay the closing using the following code   System Threading Thread Sleep 1000     Note the Sleep is using milliseconds

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You can just compile  start debugging  your work with Ctrl F5    Try it  I always do it and the console shows me my results open on it  No additional code is needed

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Ctrl   F5 is better  because you don t need additional lines   And you can  in the end  hit enter and exit running mode   But  when you start a program with F5 and put a break-point  you can debug your application and that gives you other advantages

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Those solutions mentioned change how your program work   You can off course put  if DEBUG and  endif around the Console calls  but if you really want to prevent the window from closing only on your dev machine under Visual Studio or if VS isn t running only if you explicitly configure it  and you don t want the annoying  Press any key to exit     when running from the command line  the way to go is to use the System Diagnostics Debugger API s   If you only want that to work in DEBUG  simply wrap this code in a  Conditional  DEBUG    void BreakConditional   method      Test some configuration option or another bool launch  var env   Environment GetEnvironmentVariable  LAUNCH DEBUGGER IF NOT ATTACHED    if   bool TryParse env  out launch       launch   false      Break either if a debugger is already attached  or if configured to launch if  launch    Debugger IsAttached        if  Debugger IsAttached    Debugger Launch            Debugger Break        This also works to debug programs that need elevated privileges  or that need to be able to elevate themselves

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