How to bind Close command to a button

Question

The easiest way is to implement ButtonClick event handler and invoke Window.Close() method, but how doing this through a Command binding?

Answer 1

All it takes is a bit of XAML...

<Window x:Class="WCSamples.Window1"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <Window.CommandBindings>
        <CommandBinding Command="ApplicationCommands.Close"
                        Executed="CloseCommandHandler"/>
    </Window.CommandBindings>
    <StackPanel Name="MainStackPanel">
        <Button Command="ApplicationCommands.Close" 
                Content="Close Window" />
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

And a bit of C#...

private void CloseCommandHandler(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.Close();
}

(adapted from this MSDN article)