How to get WPF Menu items names when window loaded?

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I'm new in WPF and I have this :

HTML

<Grid>
 <Menu VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="8,13,20,0" Foreground="#FF4B5D51" Height="29" Name="baseMenu"
                      HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" removed="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="#FF4B5D51" 
                      HorizontalContentAlignment="Right" FontFamily="Tahoma" FontSize="14">
<MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Management" x:Name="mnuManagement" Foreground="#FFE3A036" 
                              FontSize="15">
                <!--Employees-->
                <MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Employees" x:Name="EmpsMenuItem" removed="{x:Null}"
                              FontSize="15" Foreground="#FFE3A036"  BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
                </MenuItem>
                <MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Categories" x:Name="catMenuItem" removed="{x:Null}"
                              FontSize="15" Foreground="#FFE3A036"  BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
                </MenuItem>
                <MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Products" x:Name="prodMenuItem" removed="{x:Null}"
                              FontSize="15" Foreground="#FFE3A036"  BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
                </MenuItem>
            </MenuItem>
<!--الموردين-->
            <MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Suppliers" x:Name="mnuSuppliers" Foreground="#FFE3A036" 
                              FontSize="15">
                <!--الموردين-->
                <MenuItem Visibility="Collapsed" Header="Branches" x:Name="BranchesMenuItem" removed="{x:Null}"
                              FontSize="15" Foreground="#FFE3A036"  BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
                </MenuItem>
            </MenuItem>
        </Menu>
</Grid>

What I want to do is get every menu item name and put them in an array, I want to do that to give the user permission according to menu item name such as: If a i have user no. 1 & I will give him this permission:

C#

Management.isenable = true; 
EmpsMenuItem.isenable = false; 
mnuSuppliers.isenable = true;

So I want to looping into this array to give him permissions ,but I don't have any idea about how to do that.

How would I do this?

Posted 14-May-13 10:20am

Eng. Hudhud

Updated 14-May-13 10:26am

RaisKazi

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Pheonyx · Answer 1 · 2013-05-14T11:01:00

There are various approaches you could take to achieve this.

one could be to do a foreach loop on the form.controls collection where you are searching for a control of type MenuItem, then collect the name property from it and put that in an array. Then when you want to retrieve a control you could use an extension method such as this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8737091/get-control-by-name-including-children[^]

to retrieve the control, and in turn set the appropriate enable/disable.

Another approach could be to use commands to enable/disable menus:

http://www.skimedic.com/blog/post/2008/07/14/WPF-Menus-and-Commands.aspx[^]

Hope these ideas help you.

Clifford Nelson · Answer 2 · 2013-05-14T11:17:00

I have not actually tested this, but it should work for your simple case:

var names = baseMenu.Items.Cast<menuitem>().Select(j => j.Name);</menuitem>

What I have had to do is dynamically change a context menu depending on the selected record. I used the ContextMenuOpening event and then used a method in the ViewModel to determine if MenuItem should be visible

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