Using Application Commands

These are standard application related commands, see here In Xaml:

  <Window.CommandBindings>
    <CommandBinding Command="ApplicationCommands.Close"
                    Executed="CloseCommandHandler"
                    CanExecute="CanExecuteHandler"
                    />
  </Window.CommandBindings>
...
  <Button Command="ApplicationCommands.Close" 
            Content="Close File" />

and in code:

// Executed event handler.
private void CloseCommandHandler(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // Calls a method to close the file and release resources.
    CloseFile();
}

// CanExecute event handler.
private void CanExecuteHandler(object sender, CanExecuteRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // Call a method to determine if there is a file open.
    // If there is a file open, then set CanExecute to true.
    if (IsFileOpened())
    {
        e.CanExecute = true;
    }
    // if there is not a file open, then set CanExecute to false.
    else
    {
        e.CanExecute = false;
    }
}