How to return exit code from VB6 form?

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_{Sunday, October 5, 2014 8:52 AM}

It's a simple question, I had tried not to ask this question by searching msdn to see if there's something i can get...

but due to time constraint to complete my project, can anyone help me to advise how to return exit code from Vb6 form?

the vb6 form will be called by other application.  when Vb6 form is called, the application need to know whether if the vb6 can run successfully through exit code.

Jason

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_{Sunday, October 5, 2014 9:16 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

You can use this:

Private Declare Sub ExitProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal uExitCode As Long)

ExitProcess 1

This will return with errorcode 1

"If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe!"

_{Sunday, October 5, 2014 6:41 PM}

Seems that exit codes are not fully supported by VB6 and the recommendation is to use an intermediate output file or other communication techniques: http://support2.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=288216.

_{Monday, October 6, 2014 12:25 AM}

How to validate if the exit code was returned correctly?

Jason

_{Monday, October 6, 2014 4:01 AM}

This is a scripting question. If you're using common batch files you should check like this:

@echo off

myprogram.exe

IF ERRORLEVEL 10 GOTO PROBLEM_10
IF ERRORLEVEL 9 GOTO PROBLEM_9
.....
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO PROBLEM_1

GOTO ALL_OK

:PROBLEM_10

ECHO ....

GOTO BAD_EXIT

:PROBLEM_9

ECHO ....

GOTO BAD_EXIT

:BAD_EXIT

ECHO ....

GOTO END

:ALL_OK

ECHO ....

:END

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