Visual Studio 2013: Redirecting console output to Visual Studio Output Window

Question

I am used to Eclipse CDT where the output of a program (using cout) is written to the "Console" window inside Eclipse. enter image description here

Now I switched to Visual Studio 2013. When creating a simple C++ "Console Application" like

 #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> using namespace std; int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { cout << "hello world" << endl; cin.get(); return 0; }

the application is "run in the Dos console", i.e. when I press "Run" Visual Studio opens a small Dos window and runs the program from there. As a result, the system input and output has to be done over the Dos window as well.

My question is the following: Is it somehow possible to redirect the input and output to the Visual Studio Output window (or any other perspective/view inside Visual Studio)? I am just getting annoyed by the fact there is no integrated console... enter image description here

So basically what I want to achieve is to see the "hello world" output in the "Output" Window of Visual Studio. Is this somehow possible?

Thanks

See this answer maybe? stackoverflow.com/questions/2542599/… — Mark
– Mark, Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 17:36

Andrew Komiagin · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-27 16:34:00Z

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The most common way of doing that is to use OutputDebugString(str);

answered Mar 27, 2015 at 16:34

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Ueli Hofstetter Over a year ago

Jop I saw this approach as well. But I am rather looking for a way to redirect the output than to use another method call. I will accept your answer if it turns out that there is no other way to achieve this. Upvoted to give you credit.

Andrew Komiagin Over a year ago

There is also macro called TRACE() that is widely used. It does call OutputDebugString(str); as well. It is defined in DEBUG build only.

Ueli Hofstetter Over a year ago

I see. But there is definitely no way to somehow configure Visual Studio to do this without any code? Thx for the support.

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