How to bind Close command to a button

Question

The easiest way is to implement ButtonClick event handler and invoke Window.Close() method, but how doing this through a Command bindi

Answer 1

One option that I've found to work is to set this function up as a Behavior.

The Behavior:

    public class WindowCloseBehavior : Behavior
{
    public bool Close
    {
        get { return (bool) GetValue(CloseTriggerProperty); }
        set { SetValue(CloseTriggerProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty CloseTriggerProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("Close", typeof(bool), typeof(WindowCloseBehavior),
            new PropertyMetadata(false, OnCloseTriggerChanged));

    private static void OnCloseTriggerChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        var behavior = d as WindowCloseBehavior;

        if (behavior != null)
        {
            behavior.OnCloseTriggerChanged();
        }
    }

    private void OnCloseTriggerChanged()
    {
        // when closetrigger is true, close the window
        if (this.Close)
        {
            this.AssociatedObject.Close();
        }
    }
}

On the XAML Window, you set up a reference to it and bind the Behavior's Close property to a Boolean "Close" property on your ViewModel:

xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity"

    

So, from the View assign an ICommand to change the Close property on the ViewModel which is bound to the Behavior's Close property. When the PropertyChanged event is fired the Behavior fires the OnCloseTriggerChanged event and closes the AssociatedObject... which is the Window.