A Brief Look at Menus in WPF - Context Menus

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Next come context menus, which are menus specific to a particular control. Context menus are created using the ContextMenu class. In the application's XAML, however, context menus must be placed within the control to which they're linked, within a special object.ContextMenu section:

<TextBox>

 <TextBox.ContextMenu>

 <ContextMenu>

 

 </ContextMenu>

 </TextBox.ContextMenu>

</TextBox>

Once the ContextMenu is created, items can be added to it as in a standard menu:

<ContextMenu>

 <MenuItem Header="Item 1" />

 <MenuItem Header="Item 2" />

 <MenuItem Header="Submenu">

 <MenuItem Header="Item 3" />

 </MenuItem>

</ContextMenu>

As you can see, then, context menus aren't very different at all from regular menus. They're just connected to a particular control and don't apply to the window as a whole.

In this article, we've taken a look at menus in WPF. However, there is certainly a lot more to be learned about menus. This article, then, is only intended to be an introduction to menus, not a comprehensive resource. But you should now know enough to use menus effectively within your applications.

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