Select TreeView Node on right click before displaying ContextMenu

Question

I would like to select a WPF TreeView Node on right click, right before the ContextMenu displayed.

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Answer 1

If you want to stay within the MVVM pattern you could do the following:

View:

Code Behind:

private void TreeView_PreviewMouseRightButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    if (sender is TextBlock tb && tb.DataContext is YourTreeElementClass te)
    {
        trvName.Tag = te;
    }
}

ViewModel:

private YourTreeElementClass _clickedTreeElement;

public YourTreeElementClass ClickedTreeElement
{
    get => _clickedTreeElement;
    set => SetProperty(ref _clickedTreeElement, value);
}

Now you could either react to the ClickedTreeElement property change or you could use a command which internally works with the ClickedTreeElement.

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