[This article is for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x developers writing Windows Runtime apps. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation] When developing for iOS, you’ve probably used NSLog to display debugging and status messages. Here's how you would do that with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1. Writing text to the console / output window Although Visual Studio provides
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