Using Exit button to close a winform program

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I have an exit button on a winform that I want to use to close the program   I have added the button name to the FormClosed property found in the events section of the winforms properties    I thought that s all I had to do but when I click the button it does not close   I looked at the code and while a handler is created  there is no code inside of it   I don t know if that is correct or not   Here is the code that was created in the Form cs file   private void btnExitProgram Click object sender  EventArgs e                 What else do I have to do

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We can close every window using Application Exit    Using this method we can close hidden windows also   private void btnExitProgram Click object sender  EventArgs e                  Application Exit

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If you only want to Close the form than you can use this Close    else if you want the whole application to be closed use Application Exit

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The FormClosed Event is an Event that fires when the form closes  It is not used to actually close the form  You ll need to remove anything you ve added there   All you should have to do is add the following line to your button s event handler   this Close

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Put this little code in the event of the button   this Close

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Used Following Code System Windows Forms Application Exit

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You can also do like this   private void button2 Click object sender  EventArgs e        System Windows Forms Application ExitThread

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this Close      Closes the form programmatically

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Remove the method  I suspect you might also need to remove it from your Form Designer   Otherwise  Application Exit     Should work   That s why the designer is bad for you

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Try this   private void btnExitProgram Click object sender  EventArgs e        this Close

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In Visual Studio 2015  added this to a menu for File -  Exit and in that handler put   this Close      but the IDE said  this  was not necessary    Used the IDE suggestion with just Close    and it worked

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