binding to Header in a menuitem

[Kenneth]

Hi Telerik
In a usercontrol, I have this property in the code behind:

 

public string MyText
        {
            get {return "My text";}
            set {}
        }

 

In xaml, the usercontrol have the name: x:Name="This"

Could you somehow, please help me to get MyText into the header in the menuItem?- the following example, is not working for me: 

 

<telerik:RadToggleButton Tag="{Binding ElementName=This}" Content="Click me" IsChecked="{Binding IsOpen, ElementName=radContextMenu, Mode=TwoWay}">

            <telerik:RadContextMenu.ContextMenu >
                <telerik:RadContextMenu x:Name="radContextMenu" Placement="Bottom" IconColumnWidth="0" DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=PlacementTarget.Tag}">
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="{Binding Path=MyText}" />
                </telerik:RadContextMenu>
            </telerik:RadContextMenu.ContextMenu>

        </telerik:RadToggleButton>

Thanks from Kenneth :o)

 

 

 

[Kenneth]

I hope someone can help me :-)

[Rosen Vladimirov]

Hello Kenneth,

I've prepared a sample project to demonstrate how you can achieve your goal. Please find it attached and inform us in case you have any problems or concerns.

I would like to inform you that you are able to use RadContextMenu as a content of RadDropDownButton, so if you need this functionality, there's no need to use RadToggleButton. The code is shown below:

<telerik:RadDropDownButton x:Name="DropDownButton" Content="RadDropDownButton">
    <telerik:RadDropDownButton.DropDownContent>
        <telerik:RadContextMenu x:Name="radContextMenu2">
            <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="{Binding Path=DataContext.MyText, ElementName=DropDownButton}" />
        </telerik:RadContextMenu>
    </telerik:RadDropDownButton.DropDownContent>
</telerik:RadDropDownButton>

Hope this helps. Feel free to contact us in case you have any problems or concerns.

Regards,
Rosen Vladimirov
Telerik

[Kenneth]

Thank you so much for the two tips Rosen!

I ended up using raddropdown as you suggested:

<Window... x:Name="This"...>
<telerik:RadDropDownButton>
            <telerik:RadDropDownButton.DropDownContent>
                <telerik:RadContextMenu>
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="{Binding MyText, ElementName=This}" />
                </telerik:RadContextMenu>
            </telerik:RadDropDownButton.DropDownContent>
        </telerik:RadDropDownButton>

Kind regards from Kenneth