How to enable Context menu for a listbox item.

[Aslesh]

Hi, I will get a Set of results in a listbox. How can i enable a item by right clicking on it.. I would like to show a menu when user right clicks on the listbox item. Santhapur

[Lost User]

You can create your Context Menu in code or XAML and simply add it the ListBoxItem.ContextMenu property for each item. Another way would be to add a Context Menu for the ListBox and perform hit testing for which ListBoxItem you are over.

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[Aslesh]

IF uou have any code snippet that would be helpful for me...

[Lost User]

Do you want your context menu in XAML or code?

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[Aslesh]

either is fine with me... if you can send both thats too good

[Pete OHanlon]

I hope that this helps:

<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns: d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2006"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="ListViewContextSample.Window1"
x:Name="Window"
Title="Window1"
Width="640" Height="480">

<Window.Resources>
<XmlDataProvider x:Key="WPFRSSFeed" d:IsDataSource="True"
Source="http://www.codeproject.com/WebServices/MessageRSS.aspx?fid=1004114"/>
<DataTemplate x:Key="itemTemplate">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=title}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=description}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=link}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=author}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=pubDate}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, XPath=subject}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>

<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<ScrollViewer IsTabStop="True" >
<ItemsControl ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource itemTemplate}"
ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=Default, Source={StaticResource WPFRSSFeed},
XPath=/rss/channel/item}">
<ItemsControl.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu Name="MyContextMenu">
<MenuItem Header="This is my menu" />
</ContextMenu>
</ItemsControl.ContextMenu>
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</StackPanel>
</Window>

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modified on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 5:05 AM

[Aslesh]

I have written like this.. xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300"> ListViewItem This enables Contextmenu for the listBox. But i want to enable Context menu only for list box items...Is it Possible? Santhapur

[Pete OHanlon]

Santhapur - I can't see your code. Could you post it again using the < and > tags instead?

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[Aslesh]

Santhapur Santhapur

[Pete OHanlon]

Santhapur - the easy way to do this is to blow the ListBoxItem open a bit. Consider the following bit that replaces the entry in the ListBox section.

<ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem.Content>
<TextBlock Text="Santhapur">
<TextBlock.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu>
<MenuItem Header="Send" />
</ContextMenu>
</TextBlock.ContextMenu>
</TextBlock>
</ListBoxItem.Content>
</ListBoxItem>

That should do it for you. The context menu is now associated with the textblock, which is the list box item.

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[Aslesh]

Thanks Santhapur

[Pete OHanlon]

You're welcome. Don't you just love WPF? So many ways you can do things - and easier to get at EXACTLY the thing you want to do, rather than having to fight your way through APIs.

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[Aslesh]

I am using I wrote context menu inside the Grid tags. But i am not getting the menu on it.. can any one help