AllocConsole() not displaying cout

Question

I have a DLL where I use AllocConsole() and cout to display data for debugging purposes.
It used to work fine but since I updated my compiler (Visual Studio 2012) to the

Answer 1

I vaguely recall that you might need to redirect the stdout to the console. I might be wrong though (since you had your code working earlier):

AllocConsole();
freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
std::cout << "This works" << std::endl;