Output Window
Visual Studio often recurs to external tools for performing some actions. For example, when compiling your projects Visual Studio invokes the Visual Basic command-line compiler, so the IDE captures the output of the tools it utilizes and redirects the output to the Output window. Basically the Output window’s purpose is to show results of actions that Visual Studio has to perform or that you require to be performed by Visual Studio. For example, when you compile your projects, the Output window shows the results of the build process. Figure 2.20 shows the Output window containing the results of the build process of a Visual Basic project.
Figure 2.20 The Output window showing results of a build process.
The Output window is also ...
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