How to return exit code after running an exe?

Question

I have created a Console application for validating a function and this application i need to execute by using vbscript. After executing this exe i want to return an exit code whether the function return success or not. How can i return a status or exit code in .net?

Answer 1

In addition to @gideon you can also set

Environment.ExitCode = theExitCode;

In other parts of your code and exit directly if something really bad has happened

Answer 2

I'm going to assume you're writing either C# or VB.NET. In either case usually people have a Main function that returns nothing, but you can change this to return an integer to represent the exit code.

For C# see this MSDN page.

You can do:

static int Main()
{
    //...
    return 0;
}

For VB.NET see this MSDN page.

You can do:

Module mainModule
    Function Main() As Integer
        '....
        '....
        Return returnValue
    End Function
End Module