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Program Entry point in C#
By Kamran Shakil, published on 13 Mar 2002
Page 2 of 5
- Introduction
- Example 1 & 2
- Example 3 & 4
- More Examples
- Additional Examples
Example 1 & 2
Copy as a command takes two parameters; the source and destination files. Similarly,
a C# program can also accept command line parameters at runtime. The executable
kamran.exe can be entered as
kamran.cs
Output
one, two, three are called command line parameters. The program accepts them in an array of strings. As the array is a parameter to the function, we are free to decide on its name. Every array has a member called Length, which tells us the size of the array. In our case, it is three. Thus, a[0] will contain the first word one and not the name of the program, a[1] will contain two and a[3] - three. Main now behaves like any other function. What we do next with the command line arguments depends entirely upon us.
kamran.cs
Compiler Error
You can have one and only one function called Main in any C# program. Even though you can call it with different parameters, with the name changing, Main as a function must be given only once.
C:\>kamran one two three
kamran.cs
class zzz
{
public static void Main(string[] a)
{
int i;
for ( i=0; i< a.Length; i++)
System.Console.WriteLine(a[i]);
}
}
Output
one
two
three
one, two, three are called command line parameters. The program accepts them in an array of strings. As the array is a parameter to the function, we are free to decide on its name. Every array has a member called Length, which tells us the size of the array. In our case, it is three. Thus, a[0] will contain the first word one and not the name of the program, a[1] will contain two and a[3] - three. Main now behaves like any other function. What we do next with the command line arguments depends entirely upon us.
kamran.cs
class zzz
{
public static void Main(string[] a)
{
}
public static int Main()
{
}
}
Compiler Error
kamran.cs(3,20): error CS0017: Program 'kamran.exe' has
more than one entry point defined: 'zzz.Main(string[])'
kamran.cs(6,19): error CS0017: Program 'kamran.exe' has more than one entry point
defined: 'zzz.Main()'
You can have one and only one function called Main in any C# program. Even though you can call it with different parameters, with the name changing, Main as a function must be given only once.
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