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What would be the minimal boilerplate code for a C# console application entry-point that would make it a well-behaved citizen? When anyone goes out to create a Console Application project using Visual Studio (up to 2008 at the time of writing), you are presented with a boilerplate Program.cs that looks like this: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { } } There are, however, a few things that everyone needs to do to make a console application a minimally good citizen. For example, if an exception occurs, then write out a clean message to standard error ( Console.Error ) and not standard output ( Console.Out ). Likewise, set the error code to a non-zero value in the event of some error so that calling processes can detect failures. What would be the minimal boilerplate code for a C# console application entry-point that would make it a well-behaved citizen? What would you add or change to the following? using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Linq; static class Program { static void Run(string[] args) { // TODO Replace line-echoing sample with actual application code string line; while ((line = Console.ReadLine()) != null) Console.WriteLine(line); } static int Main(string[] args) { // TODO Use a more robust arguments parser if (args.Any(arg => arg.Equals("/v") || arg.Equals("-v"))) // verbose? Trace.Listeners.Add(new ConsoleTraceListener(true)); try { Run(args); return Environment.ExitCode; } catch (Exception e) { Console.Erro

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