How to get a Console output in ASP.NET Core with IIS Express

Ilya Chernomordik picture Ilya Chernomordik · Oct 20, 2016 · Viewed 45.6k times · Source

ASP.Net Core documentation here has a nice console logging output like in the picture below with colors for various LogLevels. I have now created an application in Visual Studio and I see that it now runs behind IIS Express and I don't see the console anymore. I remember when I did run beta, then it did pop up Kestrel directly with this nice Console output.

Is it possible to get this nice window now?

P.S. It's a bit strange that the documentation still contains these images that you cannot even see.

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Answer

maxspan picture maxspan · Dec 2, 2019

In addition to Dawid Rutkowski's answer, on the top dropdown, don't select IISExpress, select the application name. You should be able to see the console and the web page.