Debugging question: OutputDebugString and visual studio output window [modified]

[Dave Parker]

Not a programming question, but a debugging question! ;P I'm calling an in-process COM DLL written in FoxPro from a .NET 3.5 windows forms C# application that is being ran under the Visual Studio 2008 debugger. Within the FoxPro, I'm calling OutputDebugString() in kernel32.dll to, umm, output debug strings. These debug strings aren't showing in either the output window or immediate window in the Visual Studio IDE. If I attach WinDbg to the process I can see them - does anyone know an easy way to get them to appear in the output window though?

modified on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:42 AM

[Terry Griffin]

You can use DbgView from sysinternals to look at the debug output. You can get it at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx Terry

[Dave Parker]

Thanks I ended up going with this and it works nicely.