How to disable WPF ContextMenu animations?

Question

I\'m trying to hunt down what bit I need to tweak to get ContextMenus in WPF to stop animating when they appear/disappear.

From what I can tell, WPF creates a Popup

Answer 1

In your previous question, Rob showed you the reason why it acts like that. Can you not create a new ControlTemplate for your ContextMenu and set PopupAnimation property to None like the following :

You could create your own ContextMenu or apply a ControlTemplate using the shown code to specific instances.