问题:

I'm developing a simple console application in Visual Studio 2008 and want to run it in the output window inside Visual Studio 2008, instead of having a separate command prompt window come up. Is there a way to do this?

回答1:

If you run the console app in the post build step it's output will go to the output window. The inability to do this easily has been on of my biggest peeves with VS (any version)

回答2:

ctrl+F5 seems to "start without debugging" in the debugging menu.

回答3:

Does it actually have to be a console application? If you make it a WinForms app (even though it doesn't create any GUI elements) you'll get the console output in the Output window. However, you then can't read from console input, and obviously you won't get any output at all if you run from a real command line or in explorer. For simple test applications this may be fine, of course!

回答4:

The only way I know of is to add it as an external tool and tick the Use output window checkbox when you define the tool.

回答5:

It is a fairly old question, but as there is no answer marked as solution yet, try the answer given over here: Having the output of a console application in Visual Studio instead of the console