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tgraupmann — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:49:01 GMT

In a VS C# 2008 project, I've found a problem with piping console output to a file.

For example, in the project settings, debug tab, start options, and command line arguments:

If I try to pipe to a file like this:

ExamineSTPErrorLogs > report.txt

which is something that worked in VS 2005, the "> report.txt" is showing as a parameter to the console application.

But the expected behavior is that this should be piped to a file.

If I would have used:

ExamineSTPErrorLogs ">" report.txt

I would expect ">" and "report" to be used as command line parameters.

Is there some kind of hack so this can be made to work correctly?

Otherwise I'll have to downgrade. Upmh!

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evildictaitor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:22:23 GMT

Is there a good reason why you can't use the output window? If your program is writing to Console.Out rather than a parameterised stream you should consider some code changes to rectify it.

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RichardRudek — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:37:57 GMT

have you tried escaping the '>' (stream redirection) character ?

eg ^> or %>

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tgraupmann — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:45:32 GMT

RichardRudek wrote:

have you tried escaping the '>' (stream redirection) character ?

eg ^> or %>

Both escaping methods show up as args as:

"^>" "report.txt"

and

"%>" "report.txt"

I think there's a bug in VS 2008 that is treating arguments as parameters and not following the existing functionality of the previous version.

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RichardRudek — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:16 GMT

You might need to use a batch file then.

PS: I don't have VS2008, so I can't experiment...

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tgraupmann — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:36:09 GMT

I should add I'm using VS 2008 Team Suite Edition.