Release build breaks System::Console::WriteLine()

morph321

I have a problem in calling System::Console::WriteLine() from a Release Build in Visual Studio .NET 2003 that I can't figure out.

It is reproducable with a simple Windows Forms app that is compiled using /subsystem:windows, and thus does not have a natural console.

In Form1.cpp, between

System::Threading::Thread::CurrentThread->ApartmentState = System::Threading::ApartmentState::STA;
Application::Run(new Form1());

Create a new console using

AllocConsole()

which completes without error, and
then i added

System::Console::WriteLine("Hello, World!");

If you build this in Debug Mode and start this executable via the debugger (F5) or via Explorer, then the text is output to the Console.

If you build in Release Mode, and start the executable via the debugger, the text is again correctly output to the Console.

if you run the Release Mode binary from Windows Explorer, the console is created (no errors returned by AllocConsole()) but nothing is printed! Nada!

It doesn't seem to be related to buffering, because calling Flush

System::Console::OpenStandardOutput()->Flush();

doesn't help. I'm not interested in work arounds per se, (i.e. I have one already), but would like to know if I'm driving the framework incorrectly.

Ivan Dunaev

don't remember exact details but some more interop needed. google for CreateFile and SetStdHandle
it will be something like
AllocConsole()
C = CreateFile( "CONOUT$", ... )
SetStdHandle( ... , C)
Console.Writeline("...")

morph321

yeah, I already know the console handle is good, because I can use
GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE) and write to it.