Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
That's really not good. If you want to view data while debugging then you should be calling Debug.WriteLine. That will display in the Output window by default but you can redirect it and the code will simply not be compiled into a Release build. If you want to save then you call File.WriteAllText.
Sorry, I didn't mean debugging "In the Debugger /IDE".

I meant 'After deployment' when I'm setting up, servicing or calibrating the system on the target hardware I like to observe the data being captured. I can expose the textbox and hide it again before handing back to the user.