Why is the console window closing immediately once displayed my output?

Question

I\'m studying C# by following the guides in MSDN.

Now, I just tried the Example 1 (here is the link to MSDN), and I\'ve encountered an i

Answer 1

The program is closing as soon as it's execution is complete. In this case when you return 0;. This is expected functionality. If you want to see the output then either run it in a terminal manually or set a wait at the end of the program so that it will stay open for a few seconds ( using the threading library ).