How can I assign the 'Close on Escape-key pres

Question

Is there any straightforward way of telling the whole WPF application to react to Escape key presses by attempting to close the currently focused widow? It is not a great bother to manually setup the command- and input bindings but I wonder if repeating this XAML in all windows is the most elegant approach?

<Window.CommandBindings>
        <CommandBinding Command="Close" Executed="CommandBinding_Executed" />
</Window.CommandBindings>
<Window.InputBindings>
        <KeyBinding Key="Escape" Command="Close" />
</Window.InputBindings>

Any constructive suggestions welcome!

Answer 1

You can also use PreviewKeyDown Event

PreviewKeyDown="UserControl_PreviewKeyDown"

Code behind call you close command

private void UserControl_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Key == Key.Escape)
            {
                _vm.OnCloseCommand(sender);
            }
        }