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New option in Visual Studio 2019 keeps console window open after debugging

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For as long as I've been writing console applications, I've atthe end of Main I've always had a piece of code to requireuser input before exiting when in debug mode, in order to reviewany output before the window closes. Not an onerous task, butone I immediately do as soon as creating a new application.

Today I created a new .NET Core console application in VisualStudio 2019 preview and added by code without a second thought.

When I ran the application I was in for two surprises - thefirst was the icon had changed, to a fetching purple. The secondwas, after the program had ran and displayed my usual '(Pressany key to exit.)' message, the console stayed open - withanother message to press a key to exit.

A small change, but a welcome one! And, just in case it's not toeveryone's liking, there's even an option to disable thebehaviour if you don't like it.

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Unfortunately, this new option doesn't seem to work for oldschool console applications using the full .NET Framework, soI'll continue adding my boilerplate blocks to any new .NETFramework console applications I create.

  • 2019-03-02 - First published
  • 2020-11-22 - Updated formatting

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larry andrews

This is quite messed up for console apps. The checkbox does nothing for a run under the debugger. It closes the output window whatever the checkbox is set to. This is the old behavior for debug runs. HOWEVER, for non-debug running of debug compilations, the new default if that the box is unchecked and the window closes immediately. Setting the checkbox (automatically close the console when debugging stops) changes the non-debug run to leave the console window open at the end of execution. Totally confusing and mislabeled. WORSE: if you are running Visual Studio 2017 also, the options apply there also, so you suddenly lose the output window in non-debug runs.

Mix-Movie.com

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I had the same problem, when I created projects with the option 'empty project', Create project as 'Win32-console application' instead of 'empty project'. In the dialog which pops up now, you press 'continue' and after that you may check the option 'empty project' and press confirm. After that CTRL + F5 will open a console which does not close automatically.

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Alex

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You could use this extension for redirection stdout into Visual Studio output window https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NesviatypaskhaOleksii.VsConsoleOutput