I'm on VC 5.6.9.

I have a Task which runs a third party executable which on a fail returns the error in stderr. But the executable does not throw an exception and it does not have a non-zero return code. So by default, VC thinks the task succeeded even though it did not.

Is there a way to configure the task so that it checks stderr output to determine if the executable completed successfully?

Thanks,

Not right now. You could however check the std error output (through the Variable condition) and send an email if it is not empty.

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