Colors in debug console

Question

Looking at this LINQ demo:

LINQ Framework Overview

When going in debug mode, the output have colors in it. I'm using the same ObjectDumper class and I only have the black/white console window.

How can I have the same results in the console window?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can set colors of the console text and/or background in the properties if that's what you're looking for... Just right click the title bar, click Properties and choose desired colors.

Answer 2

If you want to control this programmatically, use the System.Console.ForegroundColor property.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console.foregroundcolor.aspx

Answer 3

What about :

 Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Yellow;
 Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkRed;
 Console.WriteLine("Test");

Answer 4

Daok have what you want...

But you can always use Win32 calls.

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern bool SetConsoleTextAttribute(IntPtr hConsoleOutput, int wAttributes);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle(uint nStdHandle);