With regard to the problem above where the Console doesn't appear. (I don't have enough merit points to comment directly against that post.)
I disabled the hosting process in order to get around the problem of it being left running and leaving the files locked. When I did this I found my Console window no longer appeared when I hit F5 to debug, although my program ran fine.
I then noticed that I had the "Prefer 32-bit" check-box ticked. I unticked this, rebuilt and the Console window appeared once more. This seemed strange so I ticked it off again and confirmed I can reproduce this behaviour.
I'm using Visual Studio 2013.
