Extend "System.Console"

[JechoJekov]

The JS "console" object provides much useful functionality which is not currently available in mscorlib. Namely it is possible print objects instead of just strings which could be very useful for debugging. Currently I'm using the following additional methods:

[InlineCode("console.log({obj})")]
public static void Log(object obj)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.log({*objects})")]
public static void Log(params object[] objects)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.info({obj})")]
public static void Info(object obj)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.info({*objects})")]
public static void Info(params object[] objects)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.warn({obj})")]
public static void Warn(object obj)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.warn({*objects})")]
public static void Warn(params object[] objects)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.error({obj})")]
public static void Error(object obj)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.error({*objects})")]
public static void Error(params object[] objects)
{
}

[InlineCode("console.trace()")]
public static void PrintStackTrace()
{
}

There are also some other methods that could be useful like:

1. group()
2. groupEnd()
3. time()
4. timeEnd()

[nippur72]

There is also the Saltarelle library Firebug which implements Firebug's console API and has some more methods. Check this repo's Wiki.

[JechoJekov]

This Firebug library seems like a good solution. The formatting overload methods can cause some confusion though since they are unrelated to the "String.Format" method C# developers are used to.

Still - why us it necessary to use an external class instead of adding a few methods to the built-in one? At the very minimum an overload that accept an object as an argument is necessary as having just a method that accepts a string is very limiting. Most browsers provide means to interactively inspect an object when it is printed to the console.

[nippur72]

@JechoJekov yes best is to include it in System.Console instead of having a separate class. My intention was to extend by the use of extension methods but, to my surprise, in C# static classes can't have extension methods.