How to display standard output in Visual Studio 2015?

Question

Most IDE's I've seen (NetBeans, QtCreator, XCode, CodeBlocks, Eclipse) provide an out-of-the-box method to view standard output either in one of its embedded window or external console or in a log BUT Visual Studio.

I really don't want to allocate a separate console as it is suggested at THIS question. I'd also prefer not to redirect it to a file as it is suggested at THIS question (output file is not created with the suggested console command (2>output.txt)). Please don't give answers that modify the codebase like using OutputDebugString.

If displaying standard output inside VS this way is not possible, a working solution of the other two alternatives would still be welcomed, namely using external console (which I tried using without seeing the output in it) or a log file.

Answer 1

If it is only for debugging purposes, you might find Debug Breakpoints/Tracepoint actions helpful. They enable to log custom strings with expressions (i.e. variables) to the visual studio console.

For a non-console windows application, by default (i.e. without changing your codebase, as you are requesting) all output to stdout is lost..