Debug Console window cannot accept Console.ReadLine() input during debugging

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To read input whilst debugging, you can use the console property in your configurations in launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": ".NET Core Launch (console)",
            "type": "coreclr",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/Debug/net5.0/your-project-name.dll",
            "args": [],
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        }
    ]
}

You can either use "externalTerminal" or "integratedTerminal". The "internalConsole" doesn’t appear to be working.

I use the integratedTerminal setting, as the terminal is inside VSCode itself. You will now be able to read input with Console.ReadLine();

Note: Also, internalConsole doesn’t work, and it is by design. The reason this is, is because internalConsole uses the Debug Console tab to show the output of the Console.WriteLine. Since the input box in the Debug Console is used to run expression on the current stack, there’s no place to pass in input that will go to Console.ReadLine. That’s the reason you’ll have to use something like integratedTerminal.

The screenshot below shows that the VSCode team knows this –

console option with value internal console will not be able to read ser input

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