Return value from exe

[plummer]

I have a SSIS task that calls an external exe (built in VS-VB). How do I return a string value from this exe to be used again in SSIS?

Basically just need to know how to return a string from VB though more importantly.
Thanks!

 

[jmcilhinney]

You can't return a string from an executable. An executable is not a function. One thing you could do is redirect the standard output stream of the process and then write to that in your program.