get no-integer returned from exe

5 Apr 2005 1:23 PM

raulavi

Can an EXE return Strings ? or exceptions? How?
(I see so far that integers is the only thing to return).

5 Apr 2005 3:49 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"raulavi" <raul***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> Can an EXE return Strings ? or exceptions? How?
> (I see so far that integers is the only thing to return).

No, they cannot. What exactly do you want to archieve? Maybe there is a
better solution...

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5 Apr 2005 4:23 PM

raulavi

this exe can return one of 10 different msgs .
then, what I am doing for now is to return an integer value (I want a string).
If this is so,then from whatever i call the exe and get one of these
numbers then, I have to translate the number to a msg.

Tia

(as a rule we dont write txt files nor use the registry.)

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> "raulavi" <raul***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> > Can an EXE return Strings ? or exceptions? How?
> > (I see so far that integers is the only thing to return).
>
> No, they cannot. What exactly do you want to archieve? Maybe there is a
> better solution...
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>
>

5 Apr 2005 4:33 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"raulavi" <raul***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> this exe can return one of 10 different msgs .
> then, what I am doing for now is to return an integer value (I want a
> string).
> If this is so,then from whatever i call the exe and get one of these
> numbers then, I have to translate the number to a msg.

You can write text to the console (maybe on the 'Console.Error' stream) and
read the output in your other application
(<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/misc/RedirectConsole.zip>).

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>