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Programmatically terminate MFC application

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MFC does not provide a public function to exit an application. The following method shutdowns the Application. The method simply sends a WM_CLOSE message to application's mainframe window.

void CmfcApp::ExitApplication()
{
    if(AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd != NULL))
    {
        AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->SendMessage(WM_CLOSE);
    }
}