WPF Close the application From a popup

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Hi,

I am trying to close the application from a popup. the idea is that when I click on the close button on the top-right of the popup a confirmation-messageBox will be displayed saying "The application will close" and then when they click on the Ok button, the application will shutdown.
I have tried to use the following command:
in the XAML:

XML

behaviours:ApplicationShutDownBehaviour.Closing="{Binding ClosingCommand}">

In the ViewModel:

<pre>private void ApplicationClosing(object obj)
        {
            Application.Current.Shutdown();
        }

        private bool CanApplicationClose(object arg)
        {
                return MessageBox.Show(string.Format("Application will close"), "Confirm", MessageBoxButton.OK,
                                MessageBoxImage.Warning) == MessageBoxResult.OK;

        }

but It is not working because anytime I click on any button in the popup the application closes. and I only want it to close if I click on the X (bottom-right) of the popup.

Please can someone help me?

Posted 27-Feb-13 11:17am

SamilPal

Updated 27-Feb-13 11:23am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-02-27T11:30:00

Wrong approach! (And there are no pop-ups in WPF, there are dialog and modal windows.)

You need to show dialog or show a window in modal form using ShowDialog:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httputility.htmlencode.aspx[^].

After it is done, the calling code should check up the result. With Window, you can provide and check up any property you might device to indicate that certain action is requested, but the standard way uses the property DialogResult:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.window.dialogresult.aspx[^].

The calling code has the instance of a dialog or a windows after it was shown and eventually closed. At this moment, the calling code can check up the result and act accordingly. For example, it can close the main window of the application of exit the application: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms597013.aspx[^].

That's all. Very easy, and no "close from a popup" needed.

—SA