Why doesn't Console.Writeline, Console.Write work in Visual Studio Express?

Console.WriteLine writes your output to the console window opened by your application (think black window with white text that appears when you open the Command Prompt.) Try System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine instead.

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System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine() will write messages to the Output:debug window, but so much crap is constantly dumped into that window by every process under the sun, it is like finding a needle in a haystack to find your messages.

Console.WriteLine() does not write to any window in Visual Studio. I guess it will only write to the application console if your application creates a console in the first place, i.e. if it is a console application.