Is it possible to intercept Console output?

by

Yes, very much possible:

var consoleOut = new StringWriter();
Console.SetOut(consoleOut);
Console.WriteLine("This is intercepted."); // This is not written to console
File.WriteAllText("ConsoleOutput.txt", consoleOut.ToString());

Later on if you want to stop intercepting the console output, use modification below:

var stdOut = Console.Out;
// Above interceptor code here..
Console.SetOut(stdOut); // Now all output start going back to console window

Or the OpenStandardOutput does the same without the need to save the standard stream first:

// Above interceptor code here..
var standardOutput = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput());
standardOutput.AutoFlush = true;
Console.SetOut(standardOutput); // Now all output starts flowing back to console

More Related Contents:

  1. static void Main(string[] args) [closed]
  2. Capture console exit C#
  3. How to add a Timeout to Console.ReadLine()?
  4. Creating a DateTime in a specific Time Zone in c#
  5. How can I convert an integer into its verbal representation?
  6. Redirect console output to textbox in separate program
  7. Capturing console output from a .NET application (C#)
  8. No output to console from a WPF application?
  9. How to change the color of progressbar in C# .NET 3.5?
  10. How do I trap ctrl-c (SIGINT) in a C# console app
  11. Why does closing a console that was started with AllocConsole cause my whole application to exit? Can I change this behavior?
  12. How to parse a string into a nullable int
  13. Don’t stop debugger at THAT exception when it’s thrown and caught
  14. Inconsistency in divide-by-zero behavior between different value types
  15. Software rendering mode – WPF
  16. What is the Efficiency and Performance of LINQ and Lambda Expression in .Net?
  17. Operation could destabilize the runtime?
  18. Monitoring Garbage Collector in C#
  19. How do I get the Local Network IP address of a computer programmatically?
  20. How can I join int[] to a character-separated string in .NET?
  21. How to split string preserving whole words?
  22. Dependency Injection wcf
  23. Put WPF control into a Windows Forms Form?
  24. Finding all classes with a particular attribute
  25. How can I determine whether Console.Out has been redirected to a file?
  26. How do I compile my App.config into my exe in a VS2010 C# console app?
  27. Changing font in a Console window in C#
  28. Get first element from a dictionary
  29. Is there a way to create a second console to output to in .NET when writing a console application?
  30. How to check if process is not responding?

Leave a Comment