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Enable Scrolling for ContextMenu in RadFilter

In some cases the RadContextMenu used by RadFilter contains more items than can be displayed on the screen. In order to show only part of the items, the scrolling of the ContextMenu can be enabled. The example bellow illustrates how this can be achieved using the control's PreRender server-side event handler:

<telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server">
</telerik:RadScriptManager>
<telerik:RadFilter RenderMode="Lightweight" runat="server" ID="RadFilter1" OnPreRender="RadFilter1_PreRender"
    FilterContainerID="RadGrid1">
</telerik:RadFilter>
<telerik:RadGrid RenderMode="Lightweight" runat="server" ID="RadGrid1" OnNeedDataSource="RadGrid1_NeedDataSource"
    AllowFilteringByColumn="true" AllowPaging="true">
</telerik:RadGrid>
protected void RadFilter1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var menu = RadFilter1.FindControl("rfContextMenu") as RadContextMenu;
    menu.DefaultGroupSettings.Height = Unit.Pixel(150);
    menu.EnableAutoScroll = true;
}
protected void RadGrid1_NeedDataSource(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e)
{
    System.Data.DataTable table = new System.Data.DataTable();
    Enumerable.Range(0, 100).Select(i => table.Columns.Add("Col" + i)).Count();
    RadGrid1.DataSource = table;
}
Protected Sub RadFilter1_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    Dim menu = TryCast(RadFilter1.FindControl("rfContextMenu"), RadContextMenu)
    menu.DefaultGroupSettings.Height = Unit.Pixel(150)
    menu.EnableAutoScroll = True
End Sub
Protected Sub RadGrid1_NeedDataSource(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs)
    Dim table As New System.Data.DataTable()
    Enumerable.Range(0, 100).[Select](Function(i) table.Columns.Add("Col" + i)).Count()
    RadGrid1.DataSource = table
End Sub
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