禁止引用包中的 Console.Write

Question

In one project, I reference a NuGet package which outputs text to the Console when some of its methods are called.

I would prefer it didn't, as I am writing things to the Console in my own code.

Is there a way to suppress the Console writing happening in that package, but still be able to write to Console myself?

Answer 1

You can use Console.SetOut to set the default output to any other TextWriter - but still use the original Console.Out . Here's a demo of that:

using System;
using System.IO;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var originalOut = Console.Out;
        Console.SetOut(TextWriter.Null);

        LibraryMethod();
        originalOut.WriteLine("This should still go to the console.");
    }

    static void LibraryMethod()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Imagine this were in the referenced package.");
        Console.WriteLine("This isn't going anywhere. It's being discarded.");
    }
}

That does work - but it's pretty annoying. I would personally ask the author of the original package to modify the package if possible - it's pretty odd for a library to write to the console by default. It should at least allow you to specify which TextWriter to write to.