What's the equivalent of calling Activity.finish() in a WinForms application?

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In Android when finished with an Activity and want to return to previous activity you use finish();.

Is there an equivalent in WinForms using C#? In my application once the user clicks the Enter button I want the user to return to previous window.

Which framework are you using? WinForms? WinRT? WPF? Windows Phone? — dcastro, Jun 05 '14 at 14:35
A windows form with several checkboxes and an enter key. When the enter key is pressed I want the program to return to the main class. — Aaron, Jun 05 '14 at 14:40
@Aaron You mean you want to close the form? Just call the `Close()` method — sloth, Jun 05 '14 at 14:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '14 at 14:42

Base on a superficial understanding of an Activity in Android (sounds like a window element), you just need to call Close on the current window, then the previous one will then move to the foreground.

For future reference however, I would advise you not too create such analogies between two radically different technologies since the life cycle of an Activity in Android is radically different from a form in a Windows Form application. You should try to learn the framework rather than replicating an implementation from a different framework/platform.

+1 - Better yet, [set the `DialogResult`](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16846573/using-dialogresult-correctly) — Sayse, Jun 05 '14 at 14:43

What's the equivalent of calling Activity.finish() in a WinForms application?

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