How do I redirect output from the Visual Studio debugger?

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In Visual Studio 2008, I can specify a message to be printed when a breakpoint is hit (by right-clicking the breakpoint and choosing 'When Hit...'). When the program is run, these messages appear in the Output Window. I would like to know, is there any way to redirect them to a file?

Specifying >file.txt as a command argument to the program does not work: this redirects the program's output, but not the debugger's.

(FWIW the behaviour I wish to achieve is to get the debugger to repeatedly print a variable's value to a file, rather than peppering my code with printf/cout statements.)

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