Right way to close WPF GUI application: GetCurrentProcess().Kill(), Environment.Exit(0) or this.Shutdown()

Question

My GUI desktop-based WPF 4.0 (C# .Net 4.0) program works with SQL Server database. Each time when I run my application it creates a connection to SQL Server via ADO.NET Enti

Answer 1

@Damian Leszczyński - Vash's answer pretty much covers the 4 specific questions you asked. For your final question on Application.Exit(), that's an event you can subscribe to, not a method that you can call. It should be used like this:

Application.Current.Exit += CurrentOnExit; 
//this.Exit += CurrentOnExit; would also work if you're in your main application class

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private void CurrentOnExit(object sender, ExitEventArgs exitEventArgs)
{
    //do some final stuff here before the app shuts down
}