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

I'm currently using Environment.Exit() in a console app where I don't want to throw ugly exception text back to the console. Instead I just notice the condition, write a user friendly message to the screen about what happened and then call Environment.Exit().

Otherwise, you shouldn't need to call it from Main() in a basic console application.