Exiting A Console Application

[Ziggs]

Hey peeps!

 

I have a problem exiting a c# console application. I want to exit the application by pressing a certain key, doesn't mater which. Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

[DavidTheWin]

At the end of your main method you can do a Console.ReadKey() (pretty sure that's the right method) so when the end of the main is reached you press a key and it closes. On the other hand if you have an indefinitely running loop or something in the main so that the end of the main method is never reached then you could in theory attach a listener to look for any key press and close your program that way, terminating any connections it has open then exiting.

[Ziggs]

At the end of your main method you can do a Console.ReadKey() (pretty sure that's the right method) so when the end of the main is reached you press a key and it closes. On the other hand if you have an indefinitely running loop or something in the main so that the end of the main method is never reached then you could in theory attach a listener to look for any key press and close your program that way, terminating any connections it has open then exiting.

i heave an infinite loop in the main.

[DavidTheWin]

i heave an infinite loop in the main.

 

Then you go for the second option of a keyboard listener that exits the program cleanly on any keypress

[Dgies1]

a quick and dirty solution can be something like so

 

if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)

{

Environment.Exit(0)

}

[Nineshadow]

i heave an infinite loop in the main.

Then use break when a key is pressed.

[madknight3]

Another option to consider is to utilize the cancel key event. This runs when "Ctrl + c" is pressed and is a common way to exit console apps when they are running.

 

Here's an example, some more examples and explanation can be found here.

class Program{    private static readonly ManualResetEvent QuitEvent = new ManualResetEvent(false);    static void Main(String[] args)    {        Console.CancelKeyPress += (sender, eArgs) =>        {            QuitEvent.Set();            eArgs.Cancel = true;        };        MainStart();        QuitEvent.WaitOne();        MainStop();    }    private static void MainStart()    {        Console.WriteLine("Starting...");        // Start running your code    }    private static void MainStop()    {        Console.WriteLine("Stopping...");        // Do anything you need to before the application finishes    }}