Passing the RadGridView as a parameter to a command defined in a contextmenu in a style

[Hans]

Hi,

I'm trying to to accomplish the following: whenever a user right clicks whatever data grid, the same context menu should appear.  One of the options in the context menu is the export to Excel.  I'm trying to achieve this by creating a style for the RadGridView.  Here's my xaml:

<Style x:Key="TelerikGridViewContextMenuStyle" TargetType="{x:Type telerik:RadGridView}">
    <Setter Property="ContextMenu">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ContextMenu>
                <MenuItem Header="{bx:LocalizeBinding ExportToExcel, Global=True}" Command="{Binding ExportToExcelCmd}" CommandParameter="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,  AncestorType={x:Type telerik:RadGridView}}}">
                    <MenuItem.Icon>
                        <Image Source="/Resources/Icons/Excel.png" />
                    </MenuItem.Icon>
                </MenuItem>
            </ContextMenu>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

As you can see, I'm trying to pass the RadGridView as a parameter to the command.  However, in my code, this parameter is always null.  How come ?

 

[Hans]

Ok, found it:

<Style x:Key="TelerikGridViewContextMenuStyle" TargetType="{x:Type telerik:RadGridView}">
    <Setter Property="ContextMenu">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ContextMenu>
                <MenuItem Header="{bx:LocalizeBinding ExportToExcel, Global=True}" Command="{Binding ExportToExcelCmd}" CommandParameter="{Binding Path=PlacementTarget, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorLevel=1,  AncestorType={x:Type ContextMenu}}}">
                    <MenuItem.Icon>
                        <Image Source="/Resources/Icons/Excel.png" />
                    </MenuItem.Icon>
                </MenuItem>
            </ContextMenu>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>