Preventing console window from closing on Visual Studio C/C++ Console application

Starting from Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.4) there is an option:

Tools->Options->Debugging->Automatically close the console

The corresponding fragment from the Visual Studio documentation:

Automatically close the console when debugging stops:

Tells Visual Studio to close the console at the end of a debugging session.

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