System.Console. WriteLine question

[newsgroupie]

Hi Newsgroupies,

I'm writing a Web Forms program using C# (VS.NET 2003) and trying to
monitor it whilst running using "System.Console .WriteLine(<par ams>)" but
can't for the life of me find where it outputs too.

Am I thick or just unlucky?

Please help!

Lost & Bewildered, UK

Ps: Back in the good old days we had something called "TRACE" ;-)

[Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]]

Unfortunately I don't think you can use Console. Apparently standard input
and standard output are not mapped to the console for an ASP.NET
application. I would suggest opening a file and writing to the file for
logging purposes. I ran into this issue some time ago. You are not missing
anything.

Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]

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Hi Newsgroupies,

I'm writing a Web Forms program using C# (VS.NET 2003) and trying to
monitor it whilst running using "System.Console .WriteLine(<par ams>)" but
can't for the life of me find where it outputs too.

Am I thick or just unlucky?

Please help!

Lost & Bewildered, UK

Ps: Back in the good old days we had something called "TRACE" ;-)

[Benjamin]

Thomas P. Skinner [MVP] wrote:

Unfortunately I don't think you can use Console. Apparently standard input
and standard output are not mapped to the console for an ASP.NET
application. I would suggest opening a file and writing to the file for
logging purposes. I ran into this issue some time ago. You are not missing
anything.

Ps: Back in the good old days we had something called "TRACE" ;-)

Couldent you just use System.Diagnost ics.Debug.Write Line for this?

[Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]]

Yes. This works as long as you run the application under VS.NET under debug
mode. The output from Debug.WriteLine calls goes to the output window. I was
thinking the question was geared more to a type of logging/monitoring rather
than debugging.

I often change the build to a console build for a Windows Forms application
for just such a purpose. When you do that you get a console window that you
can use Console.WriteLi ne to output to. This works regardless of whether you
run the program from VS.NET or not.

Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]

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Thomas P. Skinner [MVP] wrote:

Unfortunately I don't think you can use Console. Apparently standard
input and standard output are not mapped to the console for an ASP.NET
application. I would suggest opening a file and writing to the file for
logging purposes. I ran into this issue some time ago. You are not
missing anything.

Ps: Back in the good old days we had something called "TRACE" ;-)

Couldent you just use System.Diagnost ics.Debug.Write Line for this?

[Ian Griffiths [C# MVP]]

There are various tools out there that let you look at the debug output
stream without having to attach a debugger. Here's one:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...ebugview.shtml

But if you want to do logging, then look at the Trace class. Or if you want
a lot of flexibility, consider looking at the log4net project.
--
Ian Griffiths - http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
DevelopMentor - http://www.develop.com/

"Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]" wrote:

Yes. This works as long as you run the application under VS.NET under
debug mode. The output from Debug.WriteLine calls goes to the output
window. I was thinking the question was geared more to a type of
logging/monitoring rather than debugging.

I often change the build to a console build for a Windows Forms
application for just such a purpose. When you do that you get a console
window that you can use Console.WriteLi ne to output to. This works
regardless of whether you run the program from VS.NET or not.

Thomas P. Skinner [MVP]

"Benjamin" <cs************ @spamgourmet.co m> wrote in message
news:u2******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

Thomas P. Skinner [MVP] wrote:

Unfortunately I don't think you can use Console. Apparently standard
input and standard output are not mapped to the console for an ASP.NET
application. I would suggest opening a file and writing to the file for
logging purposes. I ran into this issue some time ago. You are not
missing anything.

Ps: Back in the good old days we had something called "TRACE" ;-)

Couldent you just use System.Diagnost ics.Debug.Write Line for this?

[newsgroupie]

Hi Newsgroupies!

Thanks for all your help but what I really want to do is something like
we could do in the good old days with MFC, ie...

TRACE("The function returned %d\n", iReturnValue);

....And be able to see this in the output window.

I appreciate that .Debug & .Trace do a similar thing in C# but without
arguments as above.

Many thanks in advance,

newsgroupie

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

newsgroupie <ne*********@no spam.com> wrote:

Hi Newsgroupies!

Thanks for all your help but what I really want to do is something like
we could do in the good old days with MFC, ie...

TRACE("The function returned %d\n", iReturnValue);

...And be able to see this in the output window.

I appreciate that .Debug & .Trace do a similar thing in C# but without
arguments as above.

So call String.Format yourself:

String.Format ("The function returned {0}", returnValue);

and pass that in as the single argument.

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[newsgroupie]

Hi Newsgroupies!

Thanks for all your help but what I really want to do is something like
we could do in the good old days with MFC, ie...

TRACE("The function returned %d\n", iReturnValue);

....And be able to see this in the output window.

I appreciate that .Debug & .Trace do a similar thing in C# but without
arguments as above.

Many thanks in advance,

newsgroupie

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

newsgroupie <ne*********@no spam.com> wrote:

Hi Newsgroupies!

Thanks for all your help but what I really want to do is something like
we could do in the good old days with MFC, ie...

TRACE("The function returned %d\n", iReturnValue);

...And be able to see this in the output window.

I appreciate that .Debug & .Trace do a similar thing in C# but without
arguments as above.

So call String.Format yourself:

String.Format ("The function returned {0}", returnValue);

and pass that in as the single argument.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[newsgroupie]

How do I do the C# equivalent of the MFC code...

int iNumber = 34;

TRACE("The answer is %04d\n", iNumber);

"The answer is 0034"

....i.e. pad the number out with leading spaces? What do I have to add to
this in C#...

System.Diagnost ics.Trace.Write Line( String.Format( "{0}",
iNumber.ToStrin g() ) );

Thanks again,

Newsgroupie

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newsgroupie <ne*********@no spam.com> wrote:

Hi Newsgroupies!

Thanks for all your help but what I really want to do is something like
we could do in the good old days with MFC, ie...

TRACE("The function returned %d\n", iReturnValue);

...And be able to see this in the output window.

I appreciate that .Debug & .Trace do a similar thing in C# but without
arguments as above.

So call String.Format yourself:

String.Forma t ("The function returned {0}", returnValue);

and pass that in as the single argument.