Redirect console to Visual Studio debug output window in app.config

Question

I want to get my Console.WriteLine() commands to appear in my "Output" window with my Debug.WriteLine() statements. I think I figured out how to do this once, but I can't remember / find on google how to do it again. I seem to remember being able to do this in the app.config file.

I find plenty of instructions on how to get console and debug statements to appear in the output of the Console, but not how to get them to appear in the "Output" window.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Basically the most simple solution looks like this.

public class ToDebugWriter : StringWriter
{
    public override void WriteLine(string value)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(value);
        base.WriteLine(value);
    }
}

And you must add this line to the initialization of the program:

Console.SetOut(new ToDebugWriter());