Writing trace information in a windows form app

Question

I know how to write trace statements that I can view in a webforms environment, but how do I do this in a windows forms app?

I am inside of a static method, and I want t

Answer 1

The simplest way is to use either System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine or System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine. If you have a debugger attached, the messages will show up in the output window, otherwise run DebugView to see the messages (you'll need to play with the filtering some to exclude the noise).