How to open black Console(Output) Window in windows form application in Visual Studio

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Sammy picture Sammy · May 5, 2011 · Viewed 35.9k times · Source

I can't find how to open that black window that I can cout and stuff. I would appreciate if anybody could help.

Thank you very much in advance.

Answer

taylonr picture taylonr · May 5, 2011

Default key mapping is Ctrl + W,O

Or do View menu -> Output window

There is also an immediate window which let's you execute statements, like ?myVal and it will tell you the value. It can be found at Ctrl+D,I or Debug->Windows->Immediate

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