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WINDOWS SCRIPTING

A Brief Look at Menus in WPF
By: Peyton McCullough
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    2008-09-22

    Table of Contents:
  • A Brief Look at Menus in WPF
  • More on MenuItem
  • Handling Input
  • Context Menus

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    A Brief Look at Menus in WPF - Context Menus


    (Page 4 of 4 )

    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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