#41 – Window Events at Startup and Shutdown

At application startup, the Window events that are fired (in order) for the main window are:

• Initialized - Main window is being created
• IsVisibleChanged - IsVisible property set to true
• SizeChanged - Size property set to size of window
• LayoutUpdated - Window layout changes
• SourceInitialized - Window is attached to Win32 window handle
• Activated - Window becomes foreground window
• PreviewGotKeyboardFocus - Window getting focus
• IsKeyboardFocusWithinChanged - IsKeyboardFocusWithin property set to true
• IsKeyboardFocusedChanged - IsKeyboardFocused property set to true
• GotKeyboardFocus - Window now has keyboard focus
• LayoutUpdated - Window layout changes
• Loaded - Window is now laid out, fully rendered
• ContentRendered - All window content has been rendered

At application shutdown, the Window events fired (in order) are:

• Closing - Window is going to close
• IsVisibleChanged - IsVisible property set to false
• Deactivated - Window becomes background window
• IsKeyboardFocusWithinChanged - IsKeyboardFocusWithin property set to false
• IsKeyboardFocusedChanged - IsKeyboardFocused property set to false
• LostKeyboardFocus - Window no longer has keyboard focus
• Closed - Window is closing