prevent form closing when form is closing

I am all about questions today, dont know why!

I am wondering, when the user clicks on the red X button to close the application, the form closing event is raised.

I am wondering if there is a way to prevent the application from being closed when the user presses the cross button?

When my application is doing something and during this process the user wants to close the app - a dialog box tells the user that the application is currently doing a process and asks if they still wanna exit - if the answer is no then I want the application to still be up and running and not exit when the answer is "no"

Currently I've set the e.Cancel = false, which works but then the application form appears to be disposed/closed but i dont want this

Code:

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DialogResult confirmExit = MessageBox.Show("It appears that there is a recording in progress, are you sure you wish to exit the application?", "Confirm exit?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2);

            if (confirmExit == DialogResult.No)
            {
                e.Cancel = false;
            }
            else
            {//Whatever....}

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e.Cancel is the way to go. How many forms do you have? I use this method with my old app (BinaryEdit and it works great.

I only have 1 main form - thats it.

Sure, the File > Exit thing works fine as I call Application.Exit(); but when the user clicks on the red cross, the formclosing() event is raised by default in .NET and I can catch that but the application runs in the background but the form has been closed already, I want the form to still be there

is there a way to do this?

I didn't realize you have Canceled = false before.

If you want to cancel the closing, you make Cancel true otherwise you don't want to cancel (hence the false) and it just closes.

awesome! Thanks... that worked ;)
for some reason I thought when cancel = true then it means "yeh, close the app...we wanna go home" and if cancel = false then "no wait, we still wanna live a bit longer"