where does console output go?

[Guest]

Hi;

When my ASP.NET app is running on IIS, where does the
Console.Out.WriteLine("hi there"); output go?

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[Hans Kesting]

Hi;

When my ASP.NET app is running on IIS, where does the
Console.Out.WriteLine("hi there"); output go?

I don't think it goes anywhere. It definitely doesn't go to the client, as
this
runs on the server. But that server process doesn't have any console to write
to,
so this output is ignored.

If you want to write logging, try log4net http://logging.apache.org/log4net/

Hans Kesting

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

As for the Console, each win32 process has a standard console output, input
and err, you can write data to output. In console application, the console
output is directly displayed. For winform or asp.net application, it is not
displayed, there does have means to redirect console in .NET:

#Redirect I/O to a TextBoxWriter in .NET
http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_data/streaming/article.php/c11777/

However, for ASP.NET application, I think you may consider other means
according to your actual scenario. Are you wantting to write out some debug
or trace data? If so the System.Diagnostics namespace contains classes that
help perform debug and trace or logging.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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[Guest]

I was wondering if IIS had a feature like the java app servers where they
write the console and error output to a file on the server. It's a useful
feature at times. Based on the replies I am guessing it does not have this.
(We do use log4net.)

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david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for your reply Dave,

Actually, in .net framework application, those Diagnostics interfaces such
as Debug, Trace object are the expected object for output some tracing
info, you can redirect the output to your prefered output storage such as
database, disk file..... Java console is simply a particular console which
bind to the standard process output.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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