http://www.dutton.me.uk/2009/01/22/returning-errorlevels-from-c-applications/ Software Engineering, Photography, Travel, Stuff... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:19:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.dutton.me.uk/2009/01/22/returning-errorlevels-from-c-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-2 c Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:19:52 +0000 http://www.dutton.me.uk/?p=20#comment-2 May I just advise against using C# console applications should you wish to do some file i/o from a non-local location (a server hosted code repository, for instance); as you run into the .NET trust-wall-of-death, as your application will not be trusted to edit these files, and in order to gain this trust you must jump through the signing-hoops-from-hell, where you will never get the approach documented on MSDN to work, and will therefore fall back to a extremely dirty technique of hashing your assembly and forcing it into the list of trusted intranet located applications every time you build it, making your policy list some unsightly list of hexadecimal chuff that no human can read and decipher. I would recommend perl for this type of task, as merely falling onto your keyboard whilst napping at your desk should generate a more useable output. May I just advise against using C# console applications should you wish to do some file i/o from a non-local location (a server hosted code repository, for instance); as you run into the .NET trust-wall-of-death, as your application will not be trusted to edit these files, and in order to gain this trust you must jump through the signing-hoops-from-hell, where you will never get the approach documented on MSDN to work, and will therefore fall back to a extremely dirty technique of hashing your assembly and forcing it into the list of trusted intranet located applications every time you build it, making your policy list some unsightly list of hexadecimal chuff that no human can read and decipher. I would recommend perl for this type of task, as merely falling onto your keyboard whilst napping at your desk should generate a more useable output.

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