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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:21:41+00:00

I have to develop an application using C#.net that has to be run once

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I have to develop an application using C#.net that has to be run once a day. It only runs for at most one minute, so developing a Windows service is overkill and a scheduled task is the appropriate way.

However, I have a few questions about how the application can communicate its results:

  • How do I indicate to the task scheduler that the task has failed? Is this via the program’s exit code?
  • How do I log output information? Is console output automatically captured or do I have to write to the event viewer explicitly?
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  1. In answer to your questions –

    1. If a task fails because it threw an unchecked exception you’ll see that in the Sheduled Task viewer, there will be a ‘Last Result’ with a value something like 0xe0434f4d. Alternatively if you return an exit code that will be also be shown in the Last Result column of the Scheduled Task viewer.

    2. Writing to the console e.g. Console.WriteLine('blah'); won’t show up anywhere. You’d need to write to the event log or to a log file.

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