How to terminate a .NET console application with an exit code

It happens that you’d like to terminate a .NET console application with some exit code. Normally exit codes are integers where negative numbers indicate that something has gone wrong with -1 being the most common. Positive digits and zero on the other hand usually imply a program execution with no errors. The most common positive exit codes are 0 and 1.

The Environment object has a method called Exit that accepts an integer as the exit code:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Environment.Exit(-1);
}

That’s all you need if you’d like to terminate a .NET console application with some exit code.

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