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Question

When I develop a C# console application (which will run on a server) and I run it using Visual Studio, I get a "Press any key to continue" message before the program terminates.

However, when I compile the very same C# code file manually using CSC, my program doesn't show that message and it terminates immediately after finishing its logic.

Does anyone know how I can make the same feature when compiling the code without using VS and WITHOUT changing the C# code any adding a ReadLine()?

UPDATE : The same message used to appear when I learned C#, I used to use TextPad with CSC, and that message used to appear without adding any Write(Line)/Read(Line) callings

Answer 1

This behavior has nothing to do with the compiler you are using. When you compile with Visual Studio, running the executable outside of Visual Studio actually will perform exactly the same as when you compile with CSC on the command line. Visual Studio (and TextPad) is adding the logic to add the "Press any key to continue" message on the console.

If you want your application to stay open, you will need to do something like Console.ReadLine() to block execution so that your application does not complete its execution.