Preventing console window from closing on Visual Studio C/C++ Console application

Question

This is a probably an embarasing question as no doubt the answer is blindingly obvious.

I\'ve used Visual Studio for years, but this is the first time I\'ve done any

Answer 1

Just press CNTRL + F5 to open it in an external command line window (Visual Studio does not have control over it).

If this doesn't work then add the following to the end of your code:

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

This wait for you to press a key to close the terminal window once the code has reached the end.

If you want to do this in multiple places, put the above code in a method (e.g. private void Pause()) and call Pause() whenever a program reaches a possible end.