How to disable the console hiding when I start debugging a .NET project in Visual Studio?

Question

How can I stop the console from hiding when I start debugging a .NET project in Visual Studio?

Tools → Options → Debugging → "Automatically close the console" is not doing what I want.

Are there any other settings I should use?

Answer 1

The option is "Automatically close the console when debugging stops". But you want to hide console when start debugging, you can try these method:

1.Change Output type to Windows Application in properties:

2.Add this code in the project:

This method will hide the console window when starting debugging.

Here is my test result:

You can get more information from here.