console app - uint exit code?

[stumper66]

I have a console application. I would like to use uint for the exit code, eg. Environment.Exitcode = 0x80070005

 

Is there a method for returning unsigned integers or long integers? The reason is, I'm catching exceptions and want to return the native windows error code, such as System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

[PlausiblyDamp]

The Main method is limited to returning an int or void - this is enforced by the runtime. Have you tried casting the unit to an int and then seeing what happens?

[stumper66]

0x80070005 = 2,147,942,405.

 

Int.MaxValule returns: 2,147,483,647

 

As you can see, if I were to convert it to an Int, it would truncate the numbers, as MaxValue is 458,758 lower than my number.

[forgottensoul]

PlausiblyDamp said cast not convert.

I.e.

uint x = 2147942405;

int y = (int)x;

Console.WriteLine("x:"+x.ToString());

Console.WriteLine("y:"+y.ToString());

which results in:

x:2147942405

y:-2147024891

 

Hope that helps,