asp.net - How to show Console.WriteLine output in my browser console or output window?

Question

I wrote System.Console.WriteLine("How can I see this debugging information in a browser"); in the model of my ASP.NET MVC4 project. How can I see this debugging string in the browser console, or at least in Visual Studio?. I can't find it in the output window of Visual Studio. Maybe I need to install some plugin from NuGet?

Answer 1

Console.WriteLine(...) will not be displayed. If you absolutely need to see output in the debugger, you'll have to use

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("This will be displayed in output window");

and view it in the Output window. You can open the output window by going to Debug -> Window -> Output:

Here's an example of what this will all look like:

For further readings, check out this SO post.