C# Console Application – Pause for User Input / Pause Command in C# Console Application

In some cases you may require to pause for the user input or display a message to the user and prompt him to continue by pressing the key.

ReadKey does the trick. It obtains the next character or function key pressed by the user.

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");

Console.ReadKey(true);

If you want the key to be displayed on user window, you can set the parameter to be false. You can also get the pressed key using as ConsoleKeyInfo shown below

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");

System.ConsoleKeyInfo KInfo = Console.ReadKey(true);

Console.WriteLine("You have pressed :" + KInfo.Key.ToString());

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