How do you pause the screen at visual studio 2008?

Answer 1

When debugging console applications using F5, the default behaviour is to close the console window as soon as the program exits. You can prevent this by placing a breakpoint on the return statement(s) in your main() function.

Alternatively, you can run the program outside the debugger with CTRL+F5. This is the same as running the program from the command line and the console window will remain open when the program exits.