How to keep Console Window open after execution?

You can use the pause-command inside C# if you want: I use it as follows:

Solution №1: (Uses P/Invoke)

// somewhere in your class [DllImport("msvcrt.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl, SetLastError=true)] public static extern int system(string command); public static int Main(string[] argv) { // your code system("pause"); // will automatically print the localized string and wait for any user key to be pressed return 0; } 

Solution №2:

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit..."); Console.ReadLine(true); 

string bat_path = "%temp%/temporary_file.bat"; string command = "command to be executed incl. arguments"; using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(bat_path, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read)) using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs, Encoding.Default)) { sw.WriteLine("@echo off"); sw.WriteLine(command); sw.WriteLine("PAUSE"); } ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo() { WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(YourApplicationPath), RedirectStandardOutput = true, RedirectStandardInput = true, RedirectStandardError = true, CreateNoWindow = false, UseShellExecute = false, WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Normal }; Process p = new Process() { StartInfo = psi; }; p.Start(); int ExitCode; p.WaitForExit(); // *** Read the streams *** string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); string error = p.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); ExitCode = p.ExitCode; MessageBox.Show("output>>" + (String.IsNullOrEmpty(output) ? "(none)" : output)); MessageBox.Show("error>>" + (String.IsNullOrEmpty(error) ? "(none)" : error)); MessageBox.Show("ExitCode: " + ExitCode.ToString(), "ExecuteCommand"); p.Close(); File.Delete(bat_path);