Define RadRadialMenu as a Static Resource

Updated on Mar 26, 2026

If you wish to reuse the same RadRadialMenu for different targets, then you could define it as a static resource. The RadRadialMenu is a FrameworkElement and if you define it directly in the Resources of the Page, it will be attached to the visual tree as a child of the Page. This leads to the following behavior - when the menu is used as a contex menu, it is visualized in a popup; if the menu is already in the children collection of the page, it can not be added as a child of the popup.

As a workaround you can create a class that has a RadRadialMenu property that will hold the instance of the radial menu we will reuse. This class is not a FrameworkElement, hence it will not be added to the visual tree and we will avoid the problem.

Example 1: Custom Class

XAML

public class RadialMenuProvider
{
	public RadRadialMenu Menu { get; set; }
}

Now we can define an instance of this class in the Resources of the Page.

Example 2: Set RadialMenuProvider as a Static Resource

XAML

<Page.Resources>
	<local:RadialMenuProvider x:Key="menuProvider">
		<local:RadialMenuProvider.Menu>
			<navigation:RadRadialMenu>
				<navigation:RadialMenuItem Header="Item 1"/>
				<navigation:RadialMenuItem Header="Item 2"/>
				<navigation:RadialMenuItem Header="Item 3"/>
			</navigation:RadRadialMenu>
		</local:RadialMenuProvider.Menu>
	</local:RadialMenuProvider>
</Page.Resources>

See Also

• Use One RadRadialMenu for Many Target Elements