With Python, I normally check the return value. And, if there's an error, I use sys.exit() together with error message.
What's equivalent action in C#?
Q1: In C#, you have to use System.Console.xxx in order to access the streams for input, output, and error: System.Console.Error is the standard error you can write to.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console.aspx
Q2: You exit with:
System.Environment.Exit( exitCode );
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.exit.aspx
Q3: Yes, C# programmers raise (throw) exceptions (objects of classes deriving from the Exception class), and catch them in upper-level callers.
If you want to catch errors in the entire program, you just encapsulate the entire main() procedure in a try...catch:
class App {
public static void Main(String[] args)
{
try {
<your code here>
} catch(Exception exc) {
<exception handling here>
}
finally {
<clean up, when needed, here>
}
}
}
System.Environment.Exit. Sure it's cool you can kill your app whenever you want but doing so makes automated testing of your code more difficult than it needs to be.Normally, you simply don't catch exceptions you can't handle. .NET takes care of killing your process for you.
