How do I use Debug.WriteLine?

[Jim H]

The documentation says that Debug.WriteLine and TraceListener.WriteLine are
supported by the compact framework, but When I try calling these methods I
get no output in my debug window? How do I print debug info to my debug
window?

jim

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Define "my debug window". When I do Debug.WriteLine, a new window is opened
on the device (behind the main form of my application), and the text is
printed there.

Paul T.

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

Check out Jon Box's blog .. http://radio.weblogs.com/0126569/2003/07/08.html

(and if you haven't picked up his book Building Solutions with the Microsoft
..NET Compact Framework - Architecture and Best Practices for Mobile
Development- it's a pretty great read)

 

[Chris Craft]

The Visual Studio .NET debug window does not intercept debug or trace
messages. But they are being produced on the handheld. You can write a
custom listener and save to a text file or do something a little more
abitious:

Tracing for Compact Framework apps
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CompactTcpTrace.asp?target=debug|compact|framework

This will allow you to see debug messages on the Desktop but not the Visual
Studio .NET IDE. You could take the next step since it is close.

Alex Feinman has a great suggestion for creating a LogFileListener:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...q=txt+tracelistener+compact+framework&spell=1

Thanks,
Chris Craft
http://www.cjcraft.com/

 

[Jim H]

Thanks to all,
jim