How to show "Press any key to Continue"

[yakupc]

Hi, Is there any way to show "Press any key to Continue" message end of the run VS Console application.

[Lost User]

yakupc wrote:

Is there any way to show "Press any key to Continue" message end of the run VS Console application

Within Visual Studio if you start debugging with Ctrl-F5 it will do it automatically. When you run your program outside this environment you will need to code it yourself (Console.Write and Read).

[Luc Pattyn]

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to Continue");
Console.ReadKey();

the second statement is optional. :laugh:

Luc Pattyn

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[vtchris peterson]

By default, "Ctrl+F5" is mapped to "Start Without Debugging"

[yakupc]

worked.It is great.Thank you so much.

[vtchris peterson]

Alternate implementation. I actually think the other solution is better, but I was curious if this would work (and it does). Note that UseShellExecute is important, otherwise the process is opened in a new window. The disadvantage is that you're more tightly coupled with the OS (i.e. it wouldn't work under Mono on a non MS-platform)

using System.Diagnostics;

// ...

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c pause");
psi.UseShellExecute = false;
Process.Start(psi).WaitForExit();

[PIEBALDconsult]

Or run it from a BAT file.

myapp.exe
pause

[Luc Pattyn]

@echo off :^)

Luc Pattyn

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[PIEBALDconsult]

I didn't want to confuse the reader with such details.

[dojohansen]

And a less user-friendly variant:

while (true)
{
Console.WriteLine("Continue to press any key.");
Console.ReadKey();
}