Problem

Often times WPF  developers want to throw their computer out the window because of a small and very irritating truth about the ContextMenu control. I’m talking about the fact that ContextMenu is not in the same visual tree as its containing parent, resulting in many data binding issues. Since the ContextMenu is not in the same visual tree, ElementName, RelativeSouce (FindAncestor), etc bindings will not work. You can get around this through the use of the PlacementTarget property and some complex DataContext re-routing, but it is a pain, confusing, and does not scale well (at all). I will present a very simple attached property that relieves the situation.

Solution

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