Console.writeline - No Effect

[jake007]

I have the following code on a button1 click event

console.writeline("This is a test")
console.readline()

When I execute the code nothing happens. Why am I not seeing the console? Any Ideas?

Jake

 

[chrissie1]

Is it a console application


Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My old site" - Me

 

[jake007]

No, it is a windows app, but I want to display some debugging info in the console window...

Jake

 

[chrissie1]

So in the output dialog is that open?

And what is "show output from" set on.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My old site" - Me

 

[Aptitude]

If you have a button you are probably creating a WinForms application that does not have a console. If you are running the code under Visual Studio, you might see the code in the Output window. However if you want to write to the output window you should use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WiteLine or System.Diagnostics.Trace.WiteLine.

You can see the output if you redirect it to a file so running the command

MyExe.exe > OutputFile.txt

will send all Console.WriteLine output to the OutputFile.txt.


If you want a proper console application you will have to open the project properties and on the Application tab set the Application Type to Console. You will then need to change the code to look something like this:

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine("message")
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub

End Module