Just curious on what the difference is between the "Me.Close" and the "End" code for Visual Basic in terms of writing a Exit Button?
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Just curious on what the difference is between the "Me.Close" and the "End" code for Visual Basic in terms of writing a Exit Button?
What are you trying to do?
"End" and "Application.Exit" do a hard thread terminate. No events are raised and no cleanup code runs it simply terminates the thread (the application) at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
You should just use Me.Close on the main form to exit your app.
That's not quite true.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha
End does indeed terminate the application immediately. That's very bad, so you should NEVER use End.
Application.Exit exits the app no matter where it's called from, but all appropriate events are raised and all appropriate cleanup is performed. Application.Exit is generally what you should call when you want to exit the application, especially if you are not calling it from the main or last form. Note that calling Application.Exit does bypass the Closing and Closed events of your forms but FormClosing and FormClosed are raised.
Me.Close simply closes the current form. If the current form is the last or main form then that will also exit the app, depending on your shutdown settings.
Really? Unless MSDN is wrong...Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
Application.Exit Method, first MSDN link on a google search.Quote:
CAUTION The Form.Closed and Form.Closing events are not raised when the Application.Exit method is called to exit your application. If you have validation code in either of these events that must be executed, you should call the Form.Close method for each open form individually before calling the Exit method.
That's the documentation for .NET 1.1. It was an issue that Closing and Closed events were not raised when Application.Exit was called, which was the reason that they added the FormClosing and FormClosed events in .NET 2.0.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157894.aspxQuote:
The Exit method does not raise the Closed and Closing events, which are obsolete as of .NET Framework 2.0.
I guess I hadn't seen that .Net 1.1 doc came up first in the google search (why doesn't MSDN show which FW doc you're looking at on the pages anymore?)
In either case, I've never seen a need to do a hard exit ("End" or "Application.Exit") anyways.
Oh but it does... it's in the TOC...
-tg
Right, but I was referring to the dropdown or whatever that was on the page, so you could change the FW doc version of the current page you're on. It used to sit conveniently in the top right and they took it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by techgnome
OH... yeah... I know... I'm not sure what the thought was behind that thought process... I think in thier efforts to "simplify" it... they made it more confusing.
-tg
They didn't take it out. They just gave you options. Click Preferences and select Classic view.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha
What "Preferences" ? I don't see any such link for Preferences on MSDN.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
-tg
It's in the top right corner.Quote:
Originally Posted by techgnome
ahh.... if one is logged in... which most of the time I'm not. Got it.
-tg