#1 – What the Main() Signature Looks Like
June 18, 2010 5 Comments
The standard entry point for a C# program is a static function named Main(). It typically looks like this:
static void Main(string[] args)
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I’m afraid you forgot to mention about the 1-dimensional array of string also as argument to the Main().
static void Main(string[] args)
Main can also return an int instead of a void. The value returned will become the exit code of the process.
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