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Asked: 2026-05-24T14:27:56+00:00

I have spent a bit of time rummaging through Stack Overflow to find out

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I have spent a bit of time rummaging through Stack Overflow to find out how to deterministically close an application based on an action. Most if not all answers say you can’t or shouldn’t do it. If this is so I would like to phrase my question differently and see how people are handling two issues I am having trouble with.

Just to let you guys know I am using Caliburn.Micro for this project.

Ok so the flow of my app can be broken down into two parts, the initial flow and the standard flow, these are as follows

Splash -> Welcome -> CreateAccount -> MainHub (all other functionality branches from here)

Splash -> MainHub (all other functionality branches from here)

Based on this flow, the feedback from my better (beta) testers is that they expect to exit the app on pressing the back button on the hub, which they see as the entry point. Currently as per navigation they go all the way back to the splash.

I see other apps have this functionality, but without forcing the application to close (Which I read is a no no) how are they achieving this desired functionality.

NOTE: I do not want to put in an exit button as I believe it goes against the natural flow of a WP7 application.

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  1. Editorial Team

    First of all, you cannot add a exit button. The only way to exit a application is to crash it, which will not be approved for marketplace certification.

    As for your problem, you simply have to remove views from the navigation stack upon completion of a known navigation.

    For this, use NavigationService.RemoveBackEntry.

    You can access the NavigationService from anywhere, using this snippet:

    (App.Current.RootVisual as PhoneApplicationFrame).RemoveBackEntry()
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