How to programatically clean output in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I print output on the console in WPF and ASP.NET-MVC applications by:

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("text");

how to programatically clear the output window?

Answer 1

// Import EnvDTE and EnvDTE80 into your project
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;

protected void ClearOutput()
{
    DTE2 ide = (DTE2)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.12.0");
    ide.ToolWindows.OutputWindow.OutputWindowPanes.Item("Debug").Clear();
    System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(ide);
}

Answer 2

This is what I use in VS2013, Win10, x64:

private static void ClearVS2013DebugWindow()
{
    // add reference to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSEnv\PublicAssemblies\envdte.dll"
    EnvDTE.DTE ide = (EnvDTE.DTE)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.12.0");
    if (ide != null)
    {
        ide.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ClearOutputWindow", "");
            System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(ide);
    }
}

Credit to the answers above.