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How to make OutputDebugString print to the pane other than "Debug"

Hello everybody !
I am using OutputDebugString and want to know how can I redirect its output to output window other than "Debug" so it will not mix with other debug output.
for example , I want each time I call OutputDebugString - the data will appear at the "Build" or "Find in files" pane .

thanks ,
Oleg
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VC doesn't provide this sort of feature (This has been asked before--surprisingly).  
You could write your own app to do it outside of VC++...but how much time do you have?  I've found it easier to tag all my messages with a quickly identifiable string.  It helps you to see your messages so that after a while the others become transparent(mentally).
Why don't you use a log file ?
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That doesn't seem to answer the question.
I agree that outputting to a log file is probably the best bet.  The only trouble is that you need a way to display the log file easily (this would be simple in unix with the tail command - one day windoze will catch up!).  

In the mean time I can give you a log file viewer app (the display updates when the log file updates) if you let me have your email address (the app is about a 300k zip file).