Providing extra functionalities using the context menu

The context menu provides a vital role in any Windows applications offering additional functionalities to the user, within that context. This is often done relevant to a single control or a window.

When you right-click on a control or a window, you can provide a popup context menu to the user, to perform single-click actions. WPF provides a ContextMenu property to all framework elements to hold a ContextMenu, having hierarchical MenuItems.

Consider this recipe to learn more about adding a context menu in your WPF application.

Getting ready

Create a new project named CH02.ContextMenuDemo, using the WPF application project template of Visual Studio.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add a context menu to a TextBlock control. The same steps can be followed to add a context menu to any of the controls inheriting FrameworkElement:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml file to modify the application UI.
2. Replace the entire Grid block with the following XAML...