Context Menu Binding to Parent Window's Datacontext

Question

I have a TreeListControl that binds to a collection in my VM. I also want to define the context menu inside the treelistcontrol having its header text bind to another string

Answer 1

Provide a name for your window and explicitly bind to it such as

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UPDATE

Since the context menu is actually in its own window, binding is a bit trickier. Hence the best bet is to walk up the RelativeSource to the context's parent and pull the header text from there:

    
        
    

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Which for this context produces this