When should one use Environment.Exit to terminate a console application?

Question

I\'m maintaining a number of console applications at work and one thing I\'ve been noticing in a number of them is that they call Environment.Exit(0).

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Answer 1

This is really used when other applications are waiting on the result of your console app. For example, SSRS (tool) can launch a console app, and waits to get back a success of failure response. The Environment.Exit(0) sends back a successful execution message.