Where does .NET's Debug.Write() output to?

Question

I didn't see any output in the console or Visual Studio's output panel from:

Debug.Write("WriteStatements() was reached")

Where does the output go to?

Answer 1

Zhaph's answer already told you a way to get to the output of Debug.Write.

Under the hood, the default listener for Debug.Write, i.e. System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener, calls the Windows API function OutputDebugString.

Any message passed to that function can be displayed by a debugger, e.g. you will see the output in the Output window of Visual Studio.

Another quite simple way to see the output of Debug.Write and/or Trace.Write is to use DebugView, a tool from Sysinternals:

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.

Please note, that Debug.Write statements will not be included in a Release build, hence you would only see the output in the Debug build.