How to catch the event of the window close button(red X button on window right top corner) in wpf form?

Question

How can I catch the event of the window close button(red X button on window right top corner) in a WPF form? We have got the closing event, window unloaded event also, but w

Answer 1

SOLUTION:

Have a flag to identify if Close() method is called from other than X icon button. (eg: IsNonCloseButtonClicked;)

Have a conditional statement inside Closing () event method which checks if the IsNonCloseButtonClicked is false.

If false, the app is trying to close itself through other than X icon button. If true, it means X icon button is clicked for closing this app.

[Sample Code]

private void buttonCloseTheApp_Click (object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
  IsNonCloseButtonClicked = true;
  this.Close (); // this will trigger the Closing () event method
}


private void MainWindow_Closing (object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e) {
  if (IsNonCloseButtonClicked) {
    e.Cancel = !IsValidated ();

    // Non X button clicked - statements
    if (e.Cancel) {
      IsNonCloseButtonClicked = false; // reset the flag
      return;
    }
  } else {

    // X button clicked - statements
  }
}