Question

I have a ContextMenu defined in the following way:

<ContextMenu>
    <MenuItem Header="Add to">
        <MenuItem Header="Test1" Click="ItemClicked" />
        <MenuItem Header="Test2" Click="ItemClicked" />
    </MenuItem>
    <MenuItem Header="Remove from All" />
</ContextMenu>

But in the ItemClicked function how would I get a reference to the parent ContextMenu??

For the first level items (e.g. “Remove from All”) I can do something like the following:

var mi = sender as MenuItem;
if (mi != null)
{
    var cm = mi.Parent as ContextMenu;
    if (cm != null)
    {
        var lb = cm.PlacementTarget as ListBox;
        if (lb != null)
        {
            // Do Stuff
        }
    }
}

But this doesn’t work for submenu MenuItems because their Parent is null…

Answer 1

try using LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent() which will return the Parent Element

LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(e.Source as DependencyObject);