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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:18:06+00:00

I am using external library ( .dll ), some of it’s methods (including constructors)

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I am using external library ( .dll ), some of it’s methods (including constructors) write stuff to standard output (a.k.a console) because it was intended to be used with console apps. However I am trying to incorporate it into my windows forms applications, so I would like to capture this output and display it in a way I like. I.e. “status” text field within my window.

All I was able to find was ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput, though apparently it doesn’t fit my needs, because it is used with an additional application (.exe) in examples. I am not executing external apps, I am just using a dll library.

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    Create a StringWriter, and set the standard output to it.

    StringWriter stringw = new StringWriter();
Console.SetOut(stringw);

    Now, anything printed to console will be inserted into the StringWriter, and you can get its contents anytime by calling stringw.ToString() so then you could do something like textBox1.AppendText(stringw.ToString()); (since you said you had a winform and had a status text field) to set the contents of your textbox.

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