windows debug [Shared pain]

[Steve Teale]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:58:26 +0300, Stanislav Blinov wrote:

> Have you tried OutputDebugString()? It's WinAPI function that sends
> strings to the 'debugger'. DebugView application from SysInternals suite
> nicely prints those strings, and also times them.

How is this better than the event log. It only takes one line of code, 
but it's still a pain in the arse.

In any case, if it's a service, where does it output the debug string to?

Thanks for you suggestion Stanislav, but I'm pretty much worked through 
it by now - albeit somewhat pissed off ;=)

Steve