Console Application - Stop and await input

Jim Heavey

I am wanting to stop my console application and see the information which has
been written to the console at a certain point in my program. I have seen
people do some sort of keyboard prompt when the application is awaiting some
key from the keyboard to proceed further. I do not recall how to construct
this instruction. I know it is very simple,, but I just can not remmeber....

Nov 16 '05 #1

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Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]

Jim,

You should just be able to make a call to the ReadLine method on the
Console object, and it will prompt for input from the user.

Hope this helps.
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I am wanting to stop my console application and see the information which
has
been written to the console at a certain point in my program. I have seen
people do some sort of keyboard prompt when the application is awaiting
some
key from the keyboard to proceed further. I do not recall how to
construct
this instruction. I know it is very simple,, but I just can not
remmeber....

Nov 16 '05 #2

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