How to stop console from closing on exit

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I m using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7 x64  The command prompt closes after exit  even though I used  Start without debug   Is there a setting somewhere that I can use

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You can simply press Ctrl F5 instead of F5 to run the built code  Then it will prompt you to press any key to continue  Or you can use this line -  system  pause    at the end of the code to make it wait until you press any key   However  if you use the above line  system  pause    and press Ctrl F5 to run  it will prompt you twice

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You could open a command prompt  CD to the Debug or Release folder  and type the name of your exe  When I suggest this to people they think it is a lot of work  but here are the bare minimum clicks and keystrokes for this    in Visual Studio  right click your project in Solution Explorer or the tab with the file name if you have a file in the solution open  and choose Open Containing Folder or Open in Windows Explorer in the resulting Windows Explorer window  double-click your way to the folder with the exe Shift-right-click in the background of the explorer window and choose Open Commmand Window here type the first letter of your executable and press tab until the full name appears press enter   I think that s 14 keystrokes and clicks  counting shift-right-click as two for example  which really isn t much  Once you have the command prompt  of course  running it again is just up-arrow  enter

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Yes  in VS2010 they changed this behavior somewhy  Open your project and navigate to the following menu  Project -  YourProjectName Properties -  Configuration Properties -  Linker -  System  There in the field SubSystem use the drop-down to select Console   SUBSYSTEM CONSOLE  and apply the change   Start without debugging  should do the right thing now   Or  if you write in C   or in C  put  system  pause      at the end of your program  then you ll get  Press any key to continue     even when running in debug mode

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What about Console Readline

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Add a Console ReadKey call to your program to force it to wait for you to press a key before exiting

[visual-studio] How to stop console from closing on exit?

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