Is there a TextWriter interface to the System.Diagnostics.Debug class?

Question

I\'m often frustrated by the System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write/WriteLine methods. I would like to use the Write/WriteLine methods familiar from the TextWriter class, so I ofte

Answer 1

Do you particularly need a whole TextWriter? While this is somewhat "quick and dirty" I suspect a static class with just a few methods would do perfectly well:

public static class DebugEx
{
    [Conditional("DEBUG")]
    public static void WriteLine(string format, params object[] args)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(string.Format(format, args));
    }
}

or something similar.

Mind you, I'd personally look at something like log4net to give more control over the output.