Keep console window of a new Process open after it finishes

c#

Solution

This will open the shell, start your executable and keep the shell window open when the process ends

Process p = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "CMD.EXE";
psi.Arguments = "/K yourmainprocess.exe";
p.StartInfo = psi;
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();

or simply

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "CMD.EXE";
psi.Arguments = "/K yourmainprocess.exe";
Process p = Process.Start(psi);
if(p != null && !p.HasExited)
    p.WaitForExit();

Problem

I currently have a portion of code that creates a new Process and executes it from the shell. ``` Process p = new Process(); ... p.Start(); p.WaitForExit(); ``` This keeps the window open while the process is running, which is great. However, I also want to keep the window open after it finishes to view potential messages. Is there a way to do this?

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