Question

Is it possible to add a console to a form based C# application ?
Currently when I do something like

Console.WriteLine("testing");

It appears in output window of the VS2010.
I want to know if its possible to attach a console to my windows form application.So that the output appears in the console.

EDIT:
Looks like my first question was a bit misleading and it did not exactly specify what I wanted to accomplish. I just added a console to my application using

    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    static extern int AllocConsole();

However what I really want is the output of log4net console appender to be displayed in
that console which is not happening.
The xml for my appender is

  <appender name="ColoredConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ColoredConsoleAppender">
    <mapping>
      <level value="INFO" />
      <foreColor value="White" />
      <backColor value="Red, HighIntensity" />
    </mapping>
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%class %date - %message %newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>

now when I go like

 log.info("Some log");

It still does not display it in the newly added console window. Any suggestions on how i could do that ?

Answer 1

Just make your project a console application and create/show a form from the console application rather than the other way around.