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Redirect the output (stdout, stderr) of a child process to the Output window in Visual Studio

Asked 2010-09-04T12:00:32.993
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At the moment I am starting a batch file from my C# program with:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"DoSomeStuff.bat");

What I would like to be able to do is redirect the output (stdout and stderr) of that child process to the Output window in Visual Studio (specifically Visual C# Express 2008).

Is there a way to do that?

(Additionally: such that it's not all buffered up and then spat out to the Output window when the child process finishes.)

(BTW: At the moment I can get stdout (but not stderr) of the parent process to appear in the Output window, by making my program a "Windows Application" instead of a "Console Application". This breaks if the program is run outside Visual Studio, but this is ok in my particular case.)

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Have you considered using a DefaultTraceListener ?

    //Create and add a new default trace listener.
    DefaultTraceListener defaultListener;
    defaultListener = new DefaultTraceListener();
    Trace.Listeners.Add(defaultListener);
answered 2010-09-04T12:35:56.270

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