How can I see console output from inside WCF service while debugging?

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How might I see the SQL query generated from LINQ to SQL when debugging inside a WCF service? I thought I might just set dataContext.Log = Console.Out and the SQL would be written to the output/immediate window. It doesn't--is that because I am hosting using IIS? Console.WriteLine("Hello") doesn't even write anything to the output/immediate window.

How do see my console output?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '11 at 21:19

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You can try to use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(), so when you distribute Release app these lines will be stripped out from code.

answered May 25 '11 at 21:19

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Debug.WriteLine outputs to the Immediate Window, but Console.WriteLine doesn't. What's up with that? Unfortunately, there's no Debug.Out TextWriter that I can pass in to dataContext.Log. – Patrick Szalapski May 25 '11 at 21:26
WCF service hosted on IIS do not have access to Console. – YetAnotherUser May 25 '11 at 21:28
Oh really? Is there any TextWriter that will write to the same place as Debug.Write? – Patrick Szalapski May 25 '11 at 21:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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You may want to write it to a file instead. dataContext.Log takes any TextWriter.

See this comment for a nice way to get a text writer writing to Debug.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered May 25 '11 at 21:19

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Yep, writing my own TextWriter worked. Not the best solution I might imagine, but it worked. – Patrick Szalapski May 25 '11 at 21:39

How can I see console output from inside WCF service while debugging?

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