Window.Close Method

You use this method to provide an alternative to the window Close button. This is particularly useful in trusted applications when you hide the window title bar and border. For information, see How to: Configure an Application for Out-of-Browser Support.

You can call this method only in the following cases:

• In response to a user-initiated action, for example, in a button Click event handler.

• Before the Application.Startup event has completed (that is, in an IApplicationService.StartService method, an IApplicationLifetimeAware.Starting method, or a Startup event handler).

• In a trusted application.

In Silverlight 5, trusted, out-of-browser applications can create multiple Window instances and manipulate them programmatically. When a window is closed either by the user or by the Close method, the instance is removed from the Windows collection and the instance becomes invalid. If you want to reuse a Window instance, handle the Closing event, set Cancel to true, and then hide the window by setting its Visibility property to Collapsed.

The following code example demonstrates the use of this method.

// Close the main window.
private void CloseButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (Application.Current.IsRunningOutOfBrowser)
    {
        Application.Current.MainWindow.Close();
    }
}

Silverlight

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

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