How to use console output in an ASP.NET environment?

Question

I would like to print some traces during the requests processing.

But when I make Console.WriteLine("something") in this environment, nothing is shown.

What is missing, what do I need to do in order to use console to print these traces?

Thanks

Answer 1

Where are you looking for the output?

Console.WriteLine() writes to the command line - not to the webpage. Either use Response.Write() to write onto the webpage or start up your application in the Visual Studio debugger to look at the command line output.

Answer 2

You can use Response.Write to write output to your page for debugging, or use alert in javascript, or even write to a log file. There are many ways to get debugging output. There's also a log4net for .Net that you can use (similar to log4j)

Answer 3

Use Debug.Write() and use the debugger output window.

Alternatively, use the ASP.NET trace feature, which is quite powerful.

Answer 4

Given that it's an ASP.NET application, I would do:

Page.Trace.Write ("Something here");

Then enable trace either for the page or the application and then just go to ~/Trace.axd to see the results (they can also be at the end of the page output, depending on the configuration option that you choose).

Answer 5

In addition to the methods already mentioned you can simply write to a log file:

File.AppendAllText(@"c:\log.txt", @"Debug Message Here!" + Environment.NewLine);

Of course you could use Server.MapPath to write the file in your web directory.