WPF: What is between the Initialized and Loaded event?

Question

I want to run some code when the Window or Control is first displayed. I can\'t use Loaded because that can fire more than once. I can\'t use Initialized because that is done by

Answer 1

Alternatively to storing a boolean flag, you can use an extension method and delegate wrapping to fake Loaded only firing once.

public static void OnLoadedOnce(
    this UserControl control,
    RoutedEventHandler onLoaded)
{
    if (control == null || onLoaded == null)
    {
        throw new ArgumentNullException();
    }

    RoutedEventHandler wrappedOnLoaded = null;
    wrappedOnLoaded = delegate(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        control.Loaded -= wrappedOnLoaded;
        onLoaded(sender, e);
    };
    control.Loaded += wrappedOnLoaded;
}

...

class MyControl : UserControl
{
    public MyControl()
    { 
        InitializeComponent();
        this.OnLoadedOnce(this.OnControlLoaded /* or delegate {...} */);
    }

    private void OnControlLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
    }
}