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

This works using vs2015 with the line std::cout.clear()

if (!AllocConsole())
    MessageBox(NULL, L"The console window was not created", NULL, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);

FILE* fp;

freopen_s(&fp, "CONOUT$", "w", stdout);

printf("Hello console on\n");

std::cout.clear();

std::cout << "Cout line one." << std::endl;

cout << "Cout line two." << std::endl;

MessageBox(NULL, (L"Pause to see console output."), (L"Pause Here"), MB_OK | MB_SYSTEMMODAL | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);

fclose(fp);

if (!FreeConsole())
    MessageBox(NULL, L"Failed to free the console!", NULL, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);