Writing to VisualStudio's debug console

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Hi experts,

I'd like to print some text to the Visual Studio built-in debug console. For that I use the following code:

C#

Console.Write("Printing my text here.");

Now I would like to overwrite "Printing" with "Writing ":

C#

Console.Write("\rWriting ");

But the carriage return does a newline on its own.

How can I continue writing at the beginning of the new line in Visual Studio's output window?

Console.SetCursorPosition causes an "Invalid handle" IOException.
Console.Write("\b"); prints a white circle on black background.

Posted 10-Dec-13 23:18pm

lukeer

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-10T23:25:00

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You can't, AFAIK - it's not meant for "normal" console activity and interaction. Instead, build a string (or StringBuilder) containing the data you want to output, modify that, and then use Console.Write

Posted 10-Dec-13 23:25pm

OriginalGriff

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lukeer 11-Dec-13 6:08am

Yeah, I was already afraid it would turn out that way.

But the change has to be done after processing the interesting part. And it's quite possible that the processing itself can fail. In that case, nothing would get printed at all.
So I'll leave it the way it is and print the result on the next line. That's not as neat but will do.

OriginalGriff 11-Dec-13 6:09am

It's only for debugging anyway! :laugh: