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Hello,

I am working on a project in WPF using MVVM. The main idea is that I have a design surface on wich I can add via some buttons element (like a toolbox). I want to have on each such item, a context menu with some commands. I have the ViewModel of the item I add (item has its DataContext property set to it) and I want to pass it as command parameter to menu items commands and I'm stuck because I don't know how to acces it. I'm using the folowing xaml :
XML
<Style x:Key="BlockContainerStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ContentControl}" >
   ....
        <Setter Property="ContextMenu">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ContextMenu ItemsSource="{Binding Path=MenuItems}" ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource ContextMenuItemStyle}"/>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>

....
XML
<Style x:Key="ContextMenuItemStyle">
        <Setter Property="MenuItem.Header" Value="{Binding DisplayText}"/>
        <Setter Property="MenuItem.ItemsSource" Value="{Binding ChildItems}"/>
        <Setter Property="MenuItem.Command" Value="{Binding Command}" />
        <Setter Property="MenuItem.CommandParameter" Value="{Binding}"></Setter>
    </Style>


..and I want to bind the MenuItem.CommandParameter to the DataContext of the control on wich I apply the BlockContainerStyle. How should I do that ?

Thank you
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Hi Beda,

Im not sure if im putting you on the right track here,
but check this article out:

http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/enable-elementname-bindings-with-elementspy/[^]


This helped me out when I was struggling with a binding similar to what you are trying to do.

Cheers
 
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