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Program Entry point in C#

Introduction

This article will examine entry points in C# programs, and the possible errors you can come across. The function to be called in any C# program is Main. We can have as many as four different ways to declare Main in our program. They are as follows:

static void Main() {...}
static int Main() {...}
static void Main(string[] a) {...}
static int Main(string[] args) {...}


Note
TheString and string words can be used interchangably; string is simply an alias of the String object.

The operating system calls Main and waits for it to return a value. This value denotes the success or failure of the program.

Main can either return a number or result in no return value, that is, void. If it returns an int, by convention, a value of zero means success and any other value indicates an error. No international authority can standardize the error numbers, it largely depends on the programmer himself.

Comments

  1. 06 Jan 2003 at 15:03

    I am not discouraging you, but I just dont see a need for an article on this issue.  One can find out those errors on trial and error basis with a test program.   Give us something new and creative!

  2. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Program Entry point in C# .

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