How to catch the ending resize window?

WPF doesn't provide an event that solely fires at the end of the resize process. SizeChanged is the only event associated with Window resizing - and it will fire multiple times during the resizing process.

A total hack would be to constantly set a timer ticking when the SizeChanged event fires. Then timer will not get a chance to tick until resizing ends and at that point do your one time processing.

public MyUserControl(){    _resizeTimer.Tick += _resizeTimer_Tick;}DispatcherTimer _resizeTimer = new DispatcherTimer { Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 1500), IsEnabled = false };private void UserControl_SizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e){    _resizeTimer.IsEnabled = true;    _resizeTimer.Stop();    _resizeTimer.Start();}void _resizeTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e){    _resizeTimer.IsEnabled = false;        //Do end of resize processing}

Reactive Extensions for .NET provides some really cool capabilities for dealing with standard event patterns including being able to throttle events. I had a similar problem in dealing with size changed events and while the solution is still somewhat "hacky" I think that Reactive Extensions provides a much more elegant way of implementing it. Here is my implementation:

IObservable<SizeChangedEventArgs> ObservableSizeChanges = Observable    .FromEventPattern<SizeChangedEventArgs>(this, "SizeChanged")    .Select(x => x.EventArgs)    .Throttle(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(200));IDisposable SizeChangedSubscription = ObservableSizeChanges    .ObserveOn(SynchronizationContext.Current)    .Subscribe(x => {        Size_Changed(x);    });

This will effectively throttle the SizeChanged event such that your Size_Changed method (where you can execute custom code) will not be executed until 200 milliseconds (or however long you would like to wait) have passed without another SizeChanged event being fired.

private void Size_Changed(SizeChangedEventArgs e) {    // custom code for dealing with end of size changed here}

You can detect exactly when a WPF window resize ended, and you don't need a timer. A native window receive the WM_EXITSIZEMOVE message when the user release the left mouse button at the end of a window resize or move operation. A WPF window doesn't receive this message, so we need to hook up a WndProc function which will receive it. We can use HwndSource with WindowInteropHelper to get our window handle. Then we will add the hook to our WndProc function. We will do all that in the window Loaded event (vb.net code):

Dim WinSource As HwndSource    Private Sub WindowLoaded_(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)    WinSource = HwndSource.FromHwnd(New WindowInteropHelper(Me).Handle)    WinSource.AddHook(New HwndSourceHook(AddressOf WndProc))End Sub

Now, in our WndProc, we will listen to the WM_EXITSIZEMOVE message:

Const WM_EXITSIZEMOVE As Integer = &H232Private Function WndProc(hwnd As IntPtr, msg As Integer, wParam As IntPtr, lParam As IntPtr, ByRef handled As Boolean) As IntPtr    If msg = WM_EXITSIZEMOVE Then        DoWhatYouNeed()    End If    Return IntPtr.ZeroEnd Function

This and a similar technique is explained here and here.

Notice that the function should return IntPtr.Zero. Also, don't do in this func anything except handling the specific messages you are interested in.

Now, WM_EXITSIZEMOVE is also sent at the end of a move operation, and we are interested only in resize. There are several ways to determine that this was the end of resize operation. I did it by listening to the WM_SIZING message (which sent many times during resize), combined with a flag. The whole solution looks like this:

(Note: Don't get confused with the code highlighting here, cause its wrong for vb.net)

Dim WinSource As HwndSourceConst WM_SIZING As Integer = &H214Const WM_EXITSIZEMOVE As Integer = &H232Dim WindowWasResized As Boolean = FalsePrivate Sub WindowLoaded_(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)    WinSource = HwndSource.FromHwnd(New WindowInteropHelper(Me).Handle)    WinSource.AddHook(New HwndSourceHook(AddressOf WndProc))End SubPrivate Function WndProc(hwnd As IntPtr, msg As Integer, wParam As IntPtr, lParam As IntPtr, ByRef handled As Boolean) As IntPtr    If msg = WM_SIZING Then        If WindowWasResized = False Then            'indicate the the user is resizing and not moving the window            WindowWasResized = True        End If    End If    If msg = WM_EXITSIZEMOVE Then        'check that this is the end of resize and not move operation                  If WindowWasResized = True Then             DoWhatYouNeed()             'set it back to false for the next resize/move             WindowWasResized = False        End If                End If    Return IntPtr.ZeroEnd Function

That's it.