Debugging C# WinForm apps

Question

I am working in Microsoft Visual C# 2008 on a Windows Form application.

I would like to write some variables out to a window in the IDE to determine what values they contain. I thought perhaps I could write to the console using console.writeline however I did not see where I could open a console window.

Is there a command I should be using to write to the immediate window or some other place where the information can easily be seen in the IDE?

Answer 1

Use Debug.WriteLine(). It's output goes to the Output window. Console.WriteLine() works the same way in a Winforms app but using Debug is better since that code automatically gets removed in the Release build.

And of course, you'll want to leverage the debugger first.