Hi

I purchased Visual C++2005, written by someone that appears to be an experimented teacher/developer.

Surprisingly, even if most exercises in this book are about writing console programs, the author doesn't give a clue on how to prevent console windows from disappearing rapidly.

How on earth can a beginner make his first step in the C++ programming environment without being able to actually see if the program runs well or not?

Anyway, is there a way to configure windows so that cmd.exe windows stays visible even after the program finished running?

Thanks a lot.
Charles

Sorry... I found the answer. I was running the code using F5 instead of Ctl+F5

Charles

This post is really helpful, thanks

it is quiet easy .you can use that "int a;cin>>a;"at the end of your program.this statement act with no use,it just help you to keep the cmd.exe stay,untill you enter a character.

fight now,date in future.

That is not a good practice. I would just use Ctl+F5 or run the program from the command line.

I bought VS 2008 so I could learn C#. In going through several tutorials I found that the console flashed quickly and disappeared. I tried the command line approach and got the same thing. I used a small program (from C# Corner) that called for inputting the user's name. Both in VS and from the command line the console flashed and disappeared. It did not wait for input. If I run cmd.exe from the command line the console stays up. Does anyone know what's happening here?