How to make context menu work for windows phone?

Question

I am using ContextMenu from Windows Phone Control toolkit. Wondering how do I know which list item in the list is pressed? It seems I can know which context menu is selected

Answer 1

I would also recommend MVVM, but it can be simplified. No need to go to the extreme of having a ViewModel for every object. The key is to bind the command to the DataContext of your ItemsControl (eg ListBox).

Let's assume that your ItemTemplate is for a ListBox, the ListBox has it's ItemsSource property bound to your ViewModel. Your xaml would look like this:

Your ViewModel, would then have the property Songs, that is a collection of your model object. It also has an ICommand AddToPlaylistCommand. As I've said before, my favorite implementation of ICommand is the DelegateCommand from the PNP team.

public class ViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public ViewModel()
    {
        Songs = new ObservableCollection();
        AddToPlaylistCommand = new DelegateCommand(AddToPlaylist);
    }
    public ICollection Songs { get; set; }
    public ICommand AddToPlaylistCommand  { get; private set; }

    private void AddToPlaylist(Song song)
    {
        // I have full access to my model!
        // add the item to the playlist
    }

    // Other stuff for INotifyPropertyChanged
}