Ribbon ContextMenu has wrong placement

Hi Chris,

Our ribbon context menu inherits the standard WPF ContextMenu so I would think the behavior would be the same. If not, then please make a simple sample project that shows the issue and email it over so we can have a look. Thanks!

Hi Chris,

Thank you for the sample. It looks like the Ribbon ContextMenu was setting the placement to Bottom by default, so it would not display correct the first time. We've updated the Ribbon ContextMenu so it doesn't change the default value of the Placement property. In the meantime, you could set Placement explicitly to MousePoint.

Based on your sample, both the native WPF ContextMenu and the Ribbon ContextMenu (which inheirts from the native WPF ContextMenu) will not call the ContextMenuClosing event the first time they are displayed. The problem here is that the first time the context menu is being displayed, you are explicitly setting the ContextMenu property and opening the context menu. The subsequent times, the ContextMenu is set and is managed completely by WPF.

To fix this latter issue, you could explicitly set the ContextMenu property to an empty Ribbon ContextMenu (either via an implicit Style or explicity). Then in the ContextMenuOpening event, you would simply add items to the ContextMenu but not open it (and let WPF handle that).

Hope this helps.