Closing C# ASP.Net MVC4 Application with a Close Button

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I am going to ask the dumnest question ever. I am creating a C# ASP.Net MVC4 application. I want a button on the index page that will shut the application down and close the browser. How do I do it? I currently have the following code snippet in my Index.cshtml to give a button:

@using (Html.BeginForm("CloseApplication", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{
    <input id="close" name="closeButton" type="submit" style="width:170px" value="Close Application" />
}

I am going to a CloseApplication ActionResult method in my HomeController.cs which currently looks like:

public ViewResult    CloseApplication()
{
    // Something to do here I think
    return null;
}

What do I do here?

Am I over complicating things?

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what do you mean by shut the application down and close the browser?! you can close the browser by using javascript easily, not requiring a postback to the controller. but what do you mean shut the application down?! — Ahmed ilyas
– Ahmed ilyas, Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17
By that I mean closing any database connections which is normally done by the Dispose function in the HomeController. If javascript will easily close the browser, may I have a little code snippet please and where to put it? New to all this. Thank you. — user3041439
– user3041439, Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 11:27

Stephen Byrne · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-27 11:33:22Z

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Honestly think you are over-complicating things for yourself.

HTTP is stateless so by the time you have rendered a page onto the client's browser, your connections, etc, should have already been Dispose'd and the instance of the controller that returned the view the client is now looking at should no longer exist. The next request the client makes will spin up a whole other controller instance.

So the user can already "close" their "instance" (from their perspective) of the application by closing their browser - adding a button to do this is kind of pointless IMHO!

answered Nov 27, 2013 at 11:33

Stephen Byrne

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user3041439 Over a year ago

Thank you. I think I will stop using a "Close" button for this then.

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