Any way to see Debug output without Visual Studio?

Question

Using MFC's TRACE macro or OutputDebugString from the Windows API, you can write to the output window of Visual Studio. Is there any way to see this output on a system where you don't have Visual Studio installed, and don't want to install it?

Answer 1

You can use Debugview from Sysinternals/Microsoft

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

Answer 2

You can capture the output from OutputDebugString with DebugView for Windows:

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs.