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If you're running a command line program from windows it'll close the window when it's finished. There's plenty of ways to get it to pause though. Alternatively, start a windows command line and run said program from that.

Edit : 3 answers in as many minutes, does this place rock or what?

I've fathomed a way. I was running it and debugging, but if I run it without debugging it keeps it open. Presumably when it debugs, it just runs the program to test it and then closes it.

edit: It does indeed rock!

The easy way would be to chuck in a breakpoint just before the program ends if you want it to pause with no extra work while debugging.

Yeah that would be easy, were it not my first ever program in C#

I'm just following the book!

Am I right in thinking that debug does just that? Checks the program and closes it? Whereas running it without debug is like running it from the point of view of an end user who may have downloaded my program?

No, the point of debug is to enable you to debug it (after all, how does it know a bug as compared to the behaviour you wanted, you may have wanted it to horribly crash). Breakpoints are places where you stop the program from running, and then it allows you to step through each instruction and see what values things are taking, hence allowing you to find wrong ones, and find the bug causing it. Just one of the things that debuggers allow you to do.

Right. So does anyone know why the book tells me that the console will show my "hello world" when in fact it just closes the cmd prompt? Is the book BROKEN? I've followed the instructions exactly.

Are you seeing Hello World at all before it closes?
Oh. So, do you have a command prompt, but running your program then closes that prompt? Even though you already had a prompt anyway before running the program?

I wouldn't think it's broken - certainly not in terms of teaching you to program as compared to using visual studio. Did it actually ask you to debug it as compared to just running it? Could be that VS2008 works differently from 2005. Could be the professional version works differently to the express version. As it stands the program is doing exactly what it's supposed to, it's just the enviroment around it that isn't behaving quite as you'd expect, but don't worry.

Basically, I've written the Hello World in Visual C# Express, I click "start debugging" like the book says, the cmd prompt flashes up for a split second with my Hello World in it and closes immediately. It is there, but it closes. However, if I click "start without debugging" the cmd prompt stays open. However, the book says to click "start debugging" and shows the cmd prompt OPEN. Bah!

I don't already have the cmd prompt open, by the way.

Right, time to install c# express (2008, I'm guessing) and see what's up.

I'm not sure anything is actually wrong. I always thought debugging something runs the program and closes it?

As I said, the programs fine, the enviroment isn't behaving as you expect. I'm just looking to see if there's a way to change that.

I do remember an option about whether the console closes automatically, but it's been a long time since I've done anything console based.

To be honest, it looks like it moves onto Windows based stuff pretty soon, so fuck it!

Bugger me, express is sparse. No option there, but I get exactly the same results as you do (that is one pauses, one doesn't), and I wouldn't worry about it.

Aces! Thanks, Dave (And CUS)

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How does it bind the pages? With $string?


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