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Friday, June 12, 2015 3:33 PM

I'm a new person to C#, and I have the following code.

namespace ODBCCExportCustomers
{
    public class CustomerExport
    {
        static int Main (string[] args)
        {
            if (args[1].Length == 0)
            {
                return 1;
            }
            else
            {
                Customer(args[1]);
                return 0;
            }
        }
        static void Customer(string starter)
        {

     Lots of code here that works 

        }
    }
}

However, when I try to compile it, I get one warning and one error:

Warning 1 'ODBCCExportCustomers.CustomerExport.Main(string)' has the wrong signature to be an entry point C:\Development\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ODBCExportCustomers\ODBCExportCustomers\MainCustExport.cs 16 20 ODBCExportCustomers
Error 2 Program 'c:\Development\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ODBCExportCustomers\ODBCExportCustomers\obj\Debug\ODBCExportCustomers.exe' does not contain a static 'Main' method suitable for an entry point C:\Development\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ODBCExportCustomers\ODBCExportCustomers\CSC ODBCExportCustomers

I have searched everywhere to try and find a solution, and everywhere I look, I see the same code as the recommended solutions.

Does anyone have any idea of what might be the issue here?

Thanks

Mark

All replies (5)

Friday, June 12, 2015 4:41 PM ✅Answered

Should main() be capitalised as Main?

Friday, June 12, 2015 4:56 PM ✅Answered

It was capitalized as Main - I changed it to main, that failed and then back to Main and it worked - thanks for the input - it's working now

Friday, June 12, 2015 4:56 PM

What happens if you remove the public:

namespace ODBCCExportCustomers
 {
     class CustomerExport
     {

What sort of project is this?

Hope that helps.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:24 AM

It was capitalized as Main - I changed it to main, that failed and then back to Main and it worked - thanks for the input - it's working now

Haha, thanks for the update!

Sunday, September 24, 2017 3:35 PM

This is crazy! But it fixed mine too.

Thanks!

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