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rodders_fallerho
rodders_fallerho

Reputation: 21

system ("pause") in C# won't work. Alternatives?

I am building a program for the purposes of displaying Smartgraph3 readings. Whenever I start debugging, the command line opens but it then immediately disappears. I know ctrl + f5 works, but I was looking for a solution where I would not have to enter the same command to keep it from disappearing.

I have used System("pause"); but it keeps coming up with a blue line under System, and in the error list says 'System' is a 'namespace' but is used like a 'variable'. Does anybody know what is wrong?

Also, I have heard System("pause") should not be used, so does anybody have an alternative that's just as effective?

Here is a copy of my code. Thank you.

    using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Text;
using Infowerk.SmartGraph3.SmartGraph3API;
//using CSTestClient.SmartGraph;

namespace CSTestClient
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TestAPI();
        }



        static void TestAPI()
        {
            System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding service_binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
            EndpointAddress endpoint_address = new EndpointAddress("http://localhost:8000/SmartGraph3API/APIV01");


            SmartGraph3APIClient client = new SmartGraph3APIClient(service_binding, endpoint_address);

            List<SG3APIDeviceIdentification> device_list = client.GetDeviceList();

            foreach (SG3APIDeviceIdentification device_identification in device_list)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("device id: {0}", device_identification.DeviceId);
                System("pause");
            }
        }

    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6909

Answers (2)

binki
binki

Reputation: 8316

Set a breakpoint on the closing brace of your Main(). Or use an IDE which streams console output to a debug window which persists after the process exits (e.g., Eclipse, I assume basically anything other than VS). No reason to force everyone who actually wants to run your program the normal way to invoke it like:

:; ./myProgram.exe < /dev/null; exit $?
.\myProgram.exe < NUL

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/20487235.

Upvotes: 1

Eisenhorn
Eisenhorn

Reputation: 1762

Go ahead and simply use:

Console.ReadKey();

Upvotes: 12

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