Why doesn t Console Writeline Console Write work in Visual Studio Express

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I just open a console application and I type  Console WriteLine  Test      But the output window doesn t show this  I go to the output window with Ctrl W O  But nothing shows up when I run my program  am I nuts or is this not supported in the visual studio 2010 express

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Right click on the project in solution-explorer and click  clean    Now run F5  Make sure the code is as below   Console WriteLine  TEST    Console ReadLine

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Perhaps the console is clearing   Try   Console WriteLine  Test    Console ReadLine      And it will hopefully stay there until you press enter

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There are 2 possible problems are   Firstly  you have not used the using System which should be before writing code that uses  quot System class quot   as Console WriteLine   Secondly  you have not coded what happens after the Console displays  quot Test quot   The possible solution will be  using System   namespace Test       public static Main                   Print to the console         Console WriteLine  quot Test quot               Allow user to read output         Console ReadKey             It is also strategic to code Console Write  quot Press any key to exit    quot    on the line that precedes the Console ReadKey    to make the user aware that the program is ending  he she must press any key to exit

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Console Writeline   shows up in the debug output  Debug    Windows    Output

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No satisfactory answers provided   System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine   will write messages to the Output debug window  but so much crap is constantly dumped into that window by every process under the sun  it is like finding a needle in a haystack to find YOUR messages   Console WriteLine   does not write to any window in Visual Studio  I guess it will only write to the application console if your application creates a console in the first place  i e  if it is a Console application   Why is the tooling making the simple task of having your web application server side code  cs code write some debug messages into a window which is swamped with crap making it almost impossible to find your information

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In Winforms app  both methods    System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine  my string     and   System Console WriteLine  my string     write to the output window   In AspNetCore app  only System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine  my string   writes to the output window

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The Output window of Visual Studio 2017 have a menu called Show output from  in my case ASP NET Core Web Server  was the option to select in order to see the printed out  I came across this issue since I had it set to Build so I wasn t seeing the printed out lines at runtime

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Or you can debug by CTRL F5 this will open ConsoleWindow waits after last line executed untill you press key

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If you are developing a command line application  you can also use Console ReadLine   at the end of your code to wait for the  Enter  keypress before closing the console window so that you can read your output

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If you use Ctrl-F5  start without debugging  it will leave the console window open with a message  Press any key to continue    That s the easiest way to keep the console window from closing so you can see the console output

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Console WriteLine writes your output to the console window opened by your application  think black window with white text that appears when you open the Command Prompt   Try System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine instead

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Try ctrl F5  it will hold your Screen until you press any key  Regards

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Go to properties in you own project in Solution Explorer window and choose application type and look for Output Type and change it s value to Console Application   This will make console screen besides your form  If you close console screen  your form will be closed too   Good luck

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I run into a similar problem while running a Unit Test  Console WriteLine   did not write anything into the VS Output Window   Using System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine   solved the problem

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Workaround I found   Press Ctrl   Alt   I or navigate to  Debug Tab  ---   Windows  ---   Immediate    In your code write   Trace WriteLine  This is one of the workaround

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Go to the Debug menu and select Options and uncheck  Redirect all Output Window text to Immediate Window

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It s more than likely because you ve used Console in the namespace  For example like this   namespace XYZApplication Console       class Program               static void Main string   args                         Some code                                  Try removing it from the namespace or use the full namespace instead i e        System Console Writeline  abc

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The output window isn t the console  Try the methods in System Diagnostics Debug

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using System Diagnostics    Trace WriteLine  This line will show on Output window     Trace Flush      This works on Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013  Refer to microsoft com

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