How to set CommandTarget for MenuItem inside a ContextMenu?

Question

(This question is related to another one, but different enough that I think it warrants placement here.)

Here\'s a (heavily snipped) Window:

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Answer 1

1: Yes, CommandTarget controls where the RoutedCommand starts routing from.

2: ContextMenu has a PlacementTarget property that will allow access to your UserControl:

<MenuItem x:Name="mnuProperties" Header="_Properties"
          Command="{x:Static localcommands:TaskCommands.ViewTaskProperties}"
          CommandTarget="{Binding PlacementTarget,
                                  RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor,
                                                                 AncestorType={x:Type ContextMenu}}}"/>

To avoid repeating this in every MenuItem you could use a Style.

3 & 4: I would say your desire is reasonable. Since the Execute handler is on the Window it doesn't matter right now, but if you had different regions of the application, each with their own Execute handler for the same command, it would matter where the focus was.

Answer 2

Similar solution I found was using the Tag property of the parent to grab the datacontext:

<Grid Tag="{Binding Path=DataContext, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type UserControl}}}">
    <Grid.ContextMenu>
        <ContextMenu DataContext="{Binding Path=PlacementTarget.Tag, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">
            <MenuItem 
                Header="{Binding Path=ToolbarDelete, Mode=Default, Source={StaticResource Resx}}" 
                Command="{Binding RemoveCommand}" 
                CommandParameter="{Binding DataContext.Id, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"/>
        </ContextMenu>
    </Grid.ContextMenu>

    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" Padding="2" />

</Grid>