How do I make Visual Studio pause after executing a console application in debug mode?

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Jason Dagit picture Jason Dagit · Oct 11, 2008 · Viewed 112.3k times · Source

I have a collection of Boost unit tests I want to run as a console application.

When I'm working on the project and I run the tests I would like to be able to debug the tests, and I would like to have the console stay open after the tests run.

I see that if I run in release mode the console window stays up after the program exits, but in debug mode this is not the case.

I do not want to add 'system("pause");' or any other hacks like reading a character to my program. I just want to make Visual Studio pause after running the tests with debugging like it would if I were running in release mode. I would also like it if the output of tests were captured in one of Visual Studio's output windows, but that also seems to be harder than it should be.

How can I do this?

Answer

Cichy picture Cichy · Dec 14, 2008

Try to run the application with the Ctrl + F5 combination.

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