Pause a Console Application for User Input or Pause Command in a Console Application

While working with C# or VB.NET Console Applications, you may require to pause for the user input or display a message to the user. Console application window get exit as the program execution finished. Following Piece of code will do it for you.

C#.NET

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
 
namespace Pause {
   class Program {
      static void Main(string[] args)
    {
     Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue…");
     Console.ReadLine(); //Pause
    }
   }
}

VB.NET

Imports System
Imports System.Text
 
Module Module1
 
    Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue…")
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub
 
End Module