I am in the process of learning C#. I downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2010 Express with C#. The problem is it has all these templates that are a little overwhelming at the moment: ASP.NET website, Library, WCF, etc.
I just want to code something very simple that takes input from the Console and outputs to it. I am making do with WCF but that's really inconvenient. It is faster for me to load up ideone.com, type my code there and compile than doing it from own my machine.
Is it even possible to create simple programs like that in C# using VS2010 Express?
Thanks everyone who answered. I installed Visual C# and now I can create console applications. But now the command window closes immediately after it's done doing whatever it's doing. Can I have it output to the IDE like I would with Java on Eclipse or Netbeans?
You can create simple apps by choosing Windows Application (if you want a GUI) or Console Application (if you just want to take input from console as you describe in the question) as project types.
Regarding the question of the console window immediately closing, the quick-and-simple fix for this is to have
Console.ReadLine();
at the end of program execution -- it'll do all it needs to do, then wait for (any) keyboard input before closing the window.
"But now the command window closes immediately after it's done doing whatever it's doing. Can I have it output to the IDE like I would with Java on Eclipse or Netbeans?"
Try running without debug mode (Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 or some other binding depending on your keyboard setting). The program will wait for you to press a key to exit.
If you want to output it to the IDE, you could use System.Diagnostics.Trace.Write, which writes to the trace output in the bottom on the IDE. I do not believe there is a built in stdout view in Visual Studio... but it seems like a great idea for a feature...
Are you there, Microsoft?
Visual Studio can be extremely overwhelming. What you should remember is that it's a tool for professionals, ultimately. However, if you want to make a Console app, it's quite simple.
Open Visual Studio
File
New
Project
Other Languages
Visual C#
Windows
Console Application
Done.
Yes, Visual Studio Express is a very good free tool for creating applications. Of course it doesn't have all of the features of Visual Studio, but I use it at home for several reasons.
What you want is the "Console Project" template
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I am getting started on C# and installed Microsoft blend for visual studio and my newproject window looks like below.
I am looking for console application as shown in below screeshot,how do I get it?
EDIT1:
how do I launch visual studio IDE?
Use Visual Studio, not Blend, to create a new Console Application.
More info on Blend and it's uses.
Blend is an interface design tool and therefore can't be used to build console apps... Try Visual Studio Community instead.
Just going along with what everyone else is saying, Visual Studio 2015 COMMUNITY EDITION is free to download and fully featured. Great tool, if anything it has too many uses. I believe it may even have most of the Visual Basic features built in.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
From the Microsoft Blend Website:
Microsoft Expression Blend is a full-featured professional design tool for creating engaging and sophisticated user interfaces for Microsoft Windows
Which a console application is not; is has basically no UI. You should keep on using Visual Studio for console application.
You can likely make the console window appear in almost any application simply by using Console.WriteLine you can also create an arbitrary console by launching one:
Is there a way to create a second console to output to in .NET when writing a console application?
Legacy Services were default are not User Interactive and thus have no console easily viewable..
I have written a windows service application which is installed on my PC. There is a problem with it, so I want to debug that service.
Can you tell me how to debug the windows services?
Please read: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7a50syb3(VS.80).aspx
The easiest way to debug code that you've written as a service in .NET is to separate all the functional code from the service into a separate assembly and then create another project, as a console or WinForms application that uses the separate assembly to run the service code.
If you have Visual Studio on same machine, use it to list the process and attach a debugger to it. You can also use remote debugging but it can be a pain to configure.
The easiest way is to add System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch() to the point you want to start debugging. Visual Studio will need to be running as Administrator. When the code is executed, a dialog will pop up asking which instance of Visual Studio you want to use to debug. If you've got Visual Studio already open with the relevant project loaded, choose that one.
This is what I'm looking for: I'd like to be able to get a real time method call listing when I am debugging my program. So for example, say I run my program via the debugger if I press a button or do anything in my program I'd like for it to spit out, say on a visual studio plugin, in real time, all the methods it went through when I pressed this button or did some kind of user action with my program.
I actually once wrote a visual studio plugin that does that by using the visual studio profiler api (I had to write a c++ com server dll that receives this information and pipes it back into my c# plugin). I did this a few years back and I have no idea where I put it. But I'm wondering if Microsoft did something like this in visual studio 2010 or if you know of any third party plugins like this because it is a very handy debugging utility.
Thanks
Check out Visual Studio 2010's Intellitrace feature - it might get you what you need: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264915.aspx
You should check IntelliTrace debugging in Visual Studio 2010. It works only with x86 though
It's not free, it's not even cheap, but RedGate's ANTS Performance Profiler can provide that data and more.
I think you could achieve that using AOP, e.g. PostSharp and an implementation of it's OnMethodBoundaryAspect and a MultiCastAttribute to apply your aspect to every method of your program. They even have an example for something quite similar to what you want on their site.
Updated link as of 8/15/2018: IntelliTrace
Note that this feature is in Enterprise edition only
From the linked page:
You can spend less time debugging your application when you use
IntelliTrace to record and trace your code's execution history. You
can find bugs easily because IntelliTrace lets you:
Record specific events
Examine related code, data that appears in the Locals window during debugger events, and function call information
Debug errors that are hard to reproduce or that happen in deployment
You can use IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Enterprise edition (but not
the Professional or Community editions).
My Runtime Flow extension shows method call listing when you press a button or do anything in a program. It works outside Visual Studio debugger.
I try to debug several applications that communicates with each other - and want to have ability to step over without switching to another process/thread.
So Visual Studio has command "Step Over Current Process (Ctrl-Alt-F10)" - which looks like what I want but it's disabled, why?
I've found the same question but for C++:
"Step over" when debugging multithreaded programs in Visual Studio
So write macros is only way for .net too?
My understanding is there is no real way to do this in visual studio. Unlike Eclipse :D. The best you can do is use the Threads debug window to freeze all threads other than the one you want to debug.
As stated in the comments you can also use a conditional break point and set a filter like "ThreadNameToStopOn" == Thread.CurrentThread.Name
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?
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)
ctrl+F5 seems to "start without debugging" in the debugging menu.
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!
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.
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