Close button coding, warning message

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Hi,
I wish that user gets a warning when Close button is pressed.
I can put the warning message in _FormClosing event but I donot know how to stop closing if user choses to stop it.

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Furqan

Posted 24-Apr-11 21:47pm

Furqan Sehgal

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Tarun.K.S · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-24T21:55:00

Solution 1

Check out this link :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.window.closing.aspx[^]

Basically, you can set e.Cancel = true to cancel the closing and vice-versa.
Hope it helped.

Posted 24-Apr-11 21:55pm

Tarun.K.S

Updated 24-Apr-11 21:57pm

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Comments

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 25-Apr-11 4:12am

Correct! 5+

Tarun.K.S 25-Apr-11 4:24am

Thanks! :)

Pravin Patil, Mumbai 25-Apr-11 4:12am

My 5........

Tarun.K.S 25-Apr-11 4:24am

Thanks! :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Apr-11 4:12am

Correct, a 5. OP can also hide instead of closing via the method you suggest.
--SA

Tarun.K.S 25-Apr-11 4:26am

Thanks! :)

Furqan Sehgal 25-Apr-11 4:47am

Thanks ! +5

Tarun.K.S 25-Apr-11 4:50am

Thanks! :)