Question

I need to call a 3rd party library that happens to spew a bunch of stuff to the console. The code simply like this…

int MyMethod(int a)
{
   int b = ThirdPartyLibrary.Transform(a);  // spews unwanted console output
   return b;
}

Is there an easy way to suppress the unwanted console output from ThirdPartyLibrary? For performance reasons, new processes or threads cannot be used in the solution.

Answer 1

Well you can use Console.SetOut to an implementation of TextWriter which doesn’t write anywhere:

Console.SetOut(TextWriter.Null);

That will suppress all console output though. You could always maintain a reference to the original Console.Out writer and use that for your own output.