Simplest way to write output message to 'output window' in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I\'ve tried OutputDebugString function and most of the time I get error like :

error C2664: \'OutputDebugStringA\' : cannot convert parameter 1          


        

Answer 1

I found this answer when searching the error message: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29800589

Basically, you just need put an "L" in front of your output string when using OutputDebugString:

OutputDebugString(L"test\n");

It worked great for me.

Edit:

For formatting strings with data, I ended up using

char buffer[100]; sprintf_s(buffer, "check it out: %s\n", "I can inject things"); OutputDebugStringA(buffer);

By no means am I an expert, I just found something that worked and moved on.