How to Close A Windows Phone App Using Code

In my previous post on how to terminate the Windows Phone application I proposed a solution that is not really in accordance with Windows Phone Marketplace Technical Cerification Requirements (see requirement 5.1.2):

”An application that closes unexpectedly fails certification.”

Even though I’m pretty sure that this requirement is not enforced since my apps use this approach and they were never rejected i decided to present another way.

Some good people suggested in comments of my previous post that you can terminate current application  simply by calling the XNA Game class Exit method like this:

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;

namespace Roboblob
{
    public class AppLifetimeHelper
    {
        public void CloseApplication()
        {
            new Game().Exit();
        }
    }
}

The downside of this is that you need to add 2 XNA dll’s to your project:

1. Microsoft.Xna.Framework
2. Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game