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Application.Exit

I have a Winforms app in which Application.Exit() fails to run.

public Form1()
{       
   InitializeComponent();           
   path=parseINI();//Gets path from ini file           
} 

In my case, Application.Exit() is being called from the parseINI method, where it doesn’t work. Is the problem that its being called when the app is starting? I stuck it in another method that runs after the form is loaded, and it works there. I did use Environment.Exit in my parseINI method, and that worked (despite it being for console apps rather than WinForms).

EDIT: I should probably add that its there as a check, to make sure a file being read is formatted correctly, if it is, then its not called, otherwise the program exits.

Answer 1

This might be because you still haven’t started the application via Application.Run when the Form ctor executes.

The common startup code template goes like this:

Application.Run(new Form1());

If that is the case, you call Application.Exit before Application.Run. So after you have called exit, you effectively call Run, and therefore, the application runs.