Help please. Debug.Print not working

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After the installation of Visual Studio 2012 Express in the firist time I got regularly Debug.Print messages in the Output Window. Suddenly, I dont know why, Debug.Print Messages did not longer appear in the Output Window. I searched for the reason for hours, deinstalled and reinstalled the GHI-SDK, NETMF and Visual Studio Express 2012. No success!
Can there something be wrong with the listeners of VS 2012?
System: Windows 8.1 32 Bit
Visual Studio 2012 Express
NETMF 4.3
SDK 2013-R3
Can somebody help?
Thanks
Roland

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@ RoSchmi - If you connect with MFDeploy do you see the messages?

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@ taylorza -
Hi taylorza, happy new year.
Seems that I get no Messages.

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@ RoSchmi - Make sure that “TINYCLR_TRACE,TRACE” is in the list of conditional compilation symbols in the build tab of all of your project properties in the solution.

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@ RoSchmi - Thank you and Happy new year to you as well!

Last question, have you rebooted your machine, I know that you probably have given all the install/uninstall activity, but I thought I would ask just in case.

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What’s with the errors? I would reflash your device until it responds properly in MFDeploy.

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Thanks, now after rebooting I can connect with MF-Deploy and get the Messages there.
Valkyrie-MT can you send me a Picture where I have to look and how the Settings should be?
… and now I have to stop struggling with my Computer for some hours. Come back when i have time for it again.
My code:


namespace GadgeteerApp4
{
    public partial class Program
    {
        Thread DebugPrintThread;
        void ProgramStarted()
        {
            Debug.Print("Program Started");
            DebugPrintThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(RunThread));
            DebugPrintThread.Start();
        }
        void RunThread()
        {
            while (true)
            {
                Debug.Print("Hello");
                Thread.Sleep(2000);
            }
        }
    }
}
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My conditional compilation symbols look like this (see Picture)
If I add “TINYCLR_TRACE,TRACE” it makes no difference

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@ RoSchmi

I myself have had that problem as well in the past. Make sure that you have checked/unchecked where the output goes. See the attached image. If you have it checked like mine, all debug output goes to the Immediate Window and not the output window.

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@ scardinale -
Hi, thank you. I tried this checked and not checked. No Messages in Output window or direct window.

Is it allowed to have both, VS 2010 and VS 2012 installed at the same time?

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I suspect that the netmf SDK will not be able to handle the situation of having two VS versions installed. I can say it wouldn’t be tested and proven TO work… but I have to ask, why do you need both?

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@ Brett -
Hi, thank you.
yes, if I find no reason I’m going to deinstall VS 2010 and try this

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@ RoSchmi

I have both 2010 and 2012 (both Ultimate) installed and have not had any problems thus far.

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I, too, have been running both 2010 (Express) and 2012 (Ultimate) side by side with no ill effects.

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I run VS2010, 2012 and 2013 with no issues with Gadgeteer and vanilla

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Thanks to all for your informations.
Problem still not solved, but I gathered some informations:

If I start VS 2012 with administrator privileges all works fine and I get after deploying the message:
Using GHI Mainboard…
and the
"Program started" message.
When I start with normal user privilges these messages are missing.
Giving administrator privileges to my user account does not fix the issue.
Inactivation of firewall or virus-scanner has no influence.

As a next step I want to look if I have a system recovery point before the issue occured.
Perhaps it has to do with registry entries that cannot be read or changed with normal user privileges.

Any other suggestions?

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Being logged in as administrator does not give VS administrative rights. You have to run it explicitly as administrator, as you found out. This is by design, but that’s all I know about that. A system restore is kind of a blunt instrument approach. I’d first check to see what changed in between the working point and the broken point. I don’t have VM Win 8 in front of me, but in Win 7 I can see the install date of programs and Windows updates. See if you can narrow it down to a suspect or two and try uninstalling them. I have had many cases where the cause of something suddenly being broken for no apparent reason was a Windows update, most often with Office.

Addendum: Here is a link to tasks known to require running VS as Adminstrator. However, I don’t believe any apply here.

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This was a long journey until I finally found the reason:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1686723.aspx

Visual Studio has an option to hide program output from the output window. Right click on the Output Window while debugging (set a breakpoint to give yourself enough time). You should see several checkboxes on the context menu. Make sure that ‘Program Output’ is checked.

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Glad you found it! That’s an obscure setting…

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Same problem here :slight_smile: Thx for the solution