Question

Almost everywhere in Windows Phone (for instance in the People hub), when you hold down your finger anywhere, a context-menu-ish menu pops up that says “Refresh”.

How can I recreate this menu in my own application? I don’t even know what to call it.

Answer 1

You can achieve this by using the toolkit‘s (August 2011) ContextMenu.

       xmlns:toolkit="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit"

       <ListBoxItem>
            <toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu>
               <toolkit:ContextMenu>
                     <toolkit:MenuItem Header="something" Command="{Binding SomeCommand}" />
                     <toolkit:MenuItem Header="something else" Command="{Binding SomeOtherCommand}" />
               </toolkit:ContextMenu>
            </toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu>