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How to catch closing event of a console application in C#

On application closing we certainly always need to perform a clean up. But on the case of a c# console application there is no clear way to do it. And this is what I came up, to import a function from kernel32.dll, which is SetConsoleCtrlHandler.

I'll let my code explain the rest:

class Program
    {
        #region Page Event Setup
        enum ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode : uint
        {
            CTRL_C_EVENT = 0,
            CTRL_BREAK_EVENT = 1,
            CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT = 2,
            CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT = 5,
            CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT = 6
        }
        delegate bool ConsoleCtrlHandlerDelegate(ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode eventCode);
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        static extern bool SetConsoleCtrlHandler(ConsoleCtrlHandlerDelegate handlerProc, bool add);
        static ConsoleCtrlHandlerDelegate _consoleHandler;        
  #endregion

  public Program()
        {
            _consoleHandler = new ConsoleCtrlHandlerDelegate(ConsoleEventHandler);
            SetConsoleCtrlHandler(_consoleHandler, true);
        }
  
  #region Page Events
        bool ConsoleEventHandler(ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode eventCode)
        {
            // Handle close event here...
            switch (eventCode)
            {
                case ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode.CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT:
                case ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT:
                case ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode.CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT:
                case ConsoleCtrlHandlerCode.CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT:
                    Destroy();
                    Environment.Exit(0);
                    break;
            }

            return (false);
        }
        #endregion
 }

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