How to filter output in Visual Studio 2012+?

I am having problem inspecting specific things in my Debug.WriteLn output in Visual Studio 2015. (Same thing in 2012 and 2013 version too.)

XCode and Eclipse both include a filter-box on top of the Output window. I tried to find a similar extension for Visual Studio but I had no luck. Is there any way to have a similar feature and filter the output window?

Various services in VS write to the output window so there is an in-built filter based on source. You can often select the source such as "Build Output", "Test discovery", "General", "Debug" etc.

Debug.Write calls are intercepted by VS and the text ends up in the Output window but there is no in built filtering.

I can think of 3 ways around this:

1. Use DbgView to intercept the Debug.Write messages instead of letting VS intercept them. DbgView has very powerful filtering and coloring features*
2. Try this extension that colors the output based on regular expressions
3. Write your own extension (it's not that difficult!)

(*) If you go down this route note that Debug.Write is just a trace and when you attach the VS debugger it will add itself as the trace lister. Same for DbgView. But when you detach it will not remove the listener and the messages will be lost.