What is the Best Practice for Combating the Console Closing Issue?

Question

After compiling console programs the console window closes immediately after running. What is the best practice for keeping it open? I\'ve searched google loads, I\'m used t

Answer 1

A very common one is to just put in code to read a key from the console after your main application code closes. The keystroke read in just gets thrown away, but it holds the console open.

It's not pretty, necessarily - but I often do this wrapped in a debug define, so during debugging, the console is held open. During release, I'm usually not running inside VS, and when run from a command line, this is no longer an issue.