Basic Form questions

Question

When debugging, can I write messages to the console window? Console.WriteLine("xx"); does not display anything In, my form.cs file, I would like to access some of the forms objects like a textbox in a public class. However, I can only access the objects with form events such as button click. public static void DrawYLabels() { YLabel1.Text = "Y1"; Form1.ActiveForm.YLabel1.Text = "Y1"; // both these don't work }