Redirect C++ output stream to a file in VS 2010 without changing code?

Question

At the command prompt I might compile my program and then run as follows:

myprogram > output.txt

Is there a similar way of redirecting the output stream in VS2010? I want to debug/run my program within the IDE but have cout stream to a file.

Answer 1

Just redirect the stdout stream pointer.

freopen( "file.txt", "w", stdout );