Question

<ContextMenu x:Key="EffectsContext"
                Name="EffectsMenu"
                StaysOpen="true">

    <MenuItem Header="Add Blur">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <Image Width="16"
                    Height="16"
                    Source="{Binding Source={x:Static prop:Resources.BlurIcon},
                                    Converter={StaticResource BitmapToImageSourceConverter}}" />
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>

    <MenuItem Header="Add Fractal">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <Image Width="16"
                    Height="16"
                    Source="{Binding Source={x:Static prop:Resources.Fractalcon},
                                    Converter={StaticResource BitmapToImageSourceConverter}}" />
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>

EffectsMenu isn’t accessable in my MainWindow.xaml.cs file. When I try it, it complains that it’s not accessible in the current context:

public MainWindow ( )
{
    this.InitializeComponent ( );

    Console.WriteLine ( EffectsMenu );
}

I also tried:

x:Name="EffectsMenu"

but same result.

Any ideas what might be wrong and how to fix it?

Answer 1

Try this

 var v = FindResource("EffectsContext");