Question

I have the following code which creates a new Button with a ContextMenu with a single MenuItem called “Remove”.

My question is…in the removeItem_Click EventHandler, how do I find out the Name property of the Button that contained this ContextMenu MenuItem?

private Button CreateRdpConnectionButton(string content, string name)
{
    var newButton = new Button();            
    newButton.Content = content;
    newButton.Name = name;
    newButton.HorizontalContentAlignment = System.Windows.HorizontalAlignment.Left;

    ContextMenu menu = new ContextMenu();
    MenuItem item = new MenuItem();
    item.Header = "Remove";
    item.Click += removeItem_Click;
    menu.Items.Add(item);

    newButton.ContextMenu = menu;
}

void removeItem_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // TODO: Find name of Button that contained this item
}

Answer 1

You could store that info in the item.Tag when you create it, then in the handler you can just cast the sender (to MenuItem) and retrieve it again.