Where are my writeline messages?

Question

I'm new to Visual Studio C# and I've created my first DLL. I'm referencing this DLL within a web application. In my code throughout numerous classes within the DLL and even in the controller classes of my web application, I make use of Console.WriteLine(...) to help with troubleshooting. I fully expected those messages to be output to the console at runtime, but they aren't showing up. For example here is some code from a class that is attempting to access a MySQL database, and before I execute the query, I attempt to write the query string to the console:

MySqlCommand cmd = null;
MySqlDataReader rdr = null;
MySqlCommand cmd2 = null;         
try{
        Console.WriteLine("query: " + query.ToString());
        cmd = new MySqlCommand(query.ToString(), conn);
        rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); 
        ...
}

In Visual Studio, during project execution time, I've looked at the Immediate Window, the Output, Locals, Call Stack windows.

If you use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(...) instead of Console.WriteLine(), then you can see the results in the Output window of Visual Studio. — Tim Schmelter, Sep 01 '14 at 20:52
Well, I've replaced my Console.WriteLine with System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine where I had them, but my messages still aren't showing up in the Output window! Is there something I'm missing? I am in Debug mode. — Alan, Sep 01 '14 at 21:35
What kind of web application is it, ASP.NET? Have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13000507/why-does-system-diagnostics-debug-writeline-not-work-in-vs2010-c-sharp — Tim Schmelter, Sep 01 '14 at 21:39
Then this seems to be the best duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11668521/how-to-use-console-writeline-in-asp-net-mvc-3 — Tim Schmelter, Sep 01 '14 at 21:49
I found the problem. From the post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13000507/why-does-system-diagnostics-debug-writeline-not-work-in-vs2010-c-sharp — Alan, Sep 01 '14 at 21:56
That was the link from my second to last comment. Glad to hear that it works — Tim Schmelter, Sep 01 '14 at 22:01

Where are my writeline messages?

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