Novice: DOS help

[Organic Lettuce]

Why is it that whenever I Debug or Run a console application with just the code: Console.WriteLine("Hello World"), ms-dos just pops up on screen for a split second with the words "Hello World" and then EXITS BY ITSELF? In order for me to keep the screen from exiting I wrote: Console.Readline() but that's really annoying to do all the time...

[Organic Lettuce]

I'm using VB 2008 on Windows XP SP2 if that matters...

[dglienna]

That's EXACTLY how a console app is supposed to use, and adding READLINE violates that rule. It is useful for debugging, sometimes.

[wilcora]

to hold a command window open when debuging your code
add a line such as

dim str as string = string.empty

then set a break point on this line of code, this will cause the window to stay open until you step thru this line of code.
make sure this is the last line of code executed.
This line of code can remain for run time usage with no worrys.