How to run a program in a console from Visual Studio?

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C++ - Hold the console window open?

I'm new to Visual Studio (actually Express), and I'm writing simple programs that write to the console in C++.

How can one run the program in a console from Visual Studio?

Directly running the program (ie. selecting Debug > Start Debugging) makes the program open a console window and then close.

The way I'm doing it now is opening the command prompt and running the program from there. Can one do this from Visual Studio directly?

Solution 1

Instead of running it with F5 try running it with ctrl+F5. This way you cannot debug, but the window doesn't close when program exits.

Solution 2

Some suggestions:

1. Set a breakpoint at the last line of main.

2. At the end of main, add a call to wait for a keypress.