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RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( J) — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:04:03 +0300

Hi Walter, thanks for the article.

It helped me to understand how ContextMenu works, but it didn't help me to solve my problem.

I need to bind ContextMenu items dynamically, this is my XAML:

<toolkit:ContextMenu ItemsSource="{Binding ...}">

<toolkit:ContextMenu.ItemTemplate>

<toolkit:MenuItem Header="{Binding ...}">

<toolkit:MenuItem.Icon>

toolkit:MenuItem.Icon>

toolkit:MenuItem>

DataTemplate>

toolkit:ContextMenu.ItemTemplate>

toolkit:ContextMenu>

The databinding works as expected, but the icons are displayed on the right side of the separator with the rest of the menuitem... Any ideas?

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( walterf) — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:25:33 +0300

Hi Jon,

no it is not possible to use exactly the same approach of WPF. As you can read in the Delay's Blog : " Silverlight 4 doesn't have the FrameworkElement.ContextMenu property that's often used to attach a ContextMenu to an element. Instead, it is always necessary to use the (functionally equivalent and more flexible) ContextMenuService.ContextMenu attached property like I show above".

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( Jon) — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:15:44 +0300

I'm wondering why this works differently than it does in WPF. Specifically, I'm wondering why you can't seem to just do the following:

                ...

i.e. the ContextMenu property is missing.

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( Ziad JKhan) — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:53:18 +0300

If you want support for submenus uploaded a class that adds support for it on Codeplex:

http://sl4popupmenu.codeplex.com/

The project is still in beta version and unfortunately it is not based on the new ContextMenu Control introduced with the latest release of the Silverlight toolkit but it is a quite a decent altenative if you badly need support for submenus.

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( walterf) — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:01:31 +0300

Hi Simon,
some more details? I just tried in a trivial example and it seems to work.

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( simon) — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:16:00 +0300

i don't want to abuse the control - I just want to use it on a DataGrid and I'm having a really bad time getting this to work!! any tips?

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( walterf) — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:55:56 +0300

Thanks, this might be an idea.. :-)

RE: Anatomy of the ContextMenu: how it is made, how to use it and how to abuse it

( Marcelo) — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:25:54 +0300

Thats awesome, You should a sequence of post intitled "The Anatomy Of ". The hardest part of Silverlight and WPF are in understanding the structure of controls!

Tks...