Visual C++ Enable Console

Question

I created an Empty Project in Visual C++, but now I need the Console to display debug output.

How can I enable the Console without recreating the project or show the

Answer 1

Here's some code you can insert to get a console window in a GUI'd windows app that starts in WinMain. There are other ways to accomplish this but this is the most compact snippet I've found.

//Alloc Console
//print some stuff to the console
//make sure to include #include "stdio.h"
//note, you must use the #include / using namespace std
//to use the iostream... #incldue "iostream.h" didn't seem to work
//in my VC 6
AllocConsole();
freopen("conin$","r",stdin);
freopen("conout$","w",stdout);
freopen("conout$","w",stderr);
printf("Debugging Window:\n");