How to exit a WPF app programmatically?

Question

Hi All

In the few years I've been using C# (WINFORMS), I've never used WPF. But now I love WPF, but I don't know how the hell I am supposed to exit my application when the user clicks on the Exit menu item from the File menu. Can somone please help me out!?

I DID google this, and guess what? For such a Simple? thing... Nothing related came up.

Thanks

P.S. I have tried:

this.Dispose();
this.Exit();
Application.ShutDown();
Application.Exit();
Application.Dispose();

... Among many others. Nothing works.

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

Application.Current.Shutdown();

If you're interested, here's some additional material that I found helpful:

Details on Application.Current

WPF Application LifeCycle

Answer 2

To exit your application you can call

Application.Current.Shutdown();

As described in the documentation to the Application.Shutdown method you can also modify the shutdown behavior of your application by specifying a ShutdownMode:

Shutdown is implicitly called by Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in the following situations:

• When ShutdownMode is set to OnLastWindowClose.
• When the ShutdownMode is set to OnMainWindowClose.
• When a user ends a session and the SessionEnding event is either unhandled, or handled without cancellation.

Please also note that Application.Current.Shutdown(); may only be called from the thread that created the Application object, i.e. normally the main thread.

Answer 3

Hi,

There should not be an Application.ShutDown(); or .Exit() message.

Application is a static class. It does not refer to the current application You need to get to the current application and then shut it down like this:

Application.Current.Shutdown();

Answer 4

According to my understanding, Application.Current.Shutdown() also has its drawback,

if you want to show a confirm window to let users confirm on quit or not, Application.Current.Shutdown() is irreversible.