Using the ContextMenuService

Overview

All context menu related operations are handled by a stand alone service, registered with RadDock - ContextMenuService. Each context menu request is passed to the service, which on its hand creates the appropriate menu items and raises several events, which allows users to modify existing items, add their own or even cancel the request.

Modifying the existing context menus

The following example demonstrates how you can hide the Close options from the DocumentWindow context menu. By default, the menu looks like this:

Let's get the ContextMenuService and subscribe to its ContextMenuDisplaying event:

Getting the ContextMenuService

ContextMenuService menuService = this.radDock1.GetService<ContextMenuService>();
menuService.ContextMenuDisplaying += menuService_ContextMenuDisplaying;

Dim menuService As ContextMenuService = Me.RadDock1.GetService(Of ContextMenuService)()
AddHandler menuService.ContextMenuDisplaying, AddressOf menuService_ContextMenuDisplaying

Then, hide the 'Close' options in the ContextMenuDisplaying event handler:

Hiding the 'close' menu items

private void menuService_ContextMenuDisplaying(object sender, ContextMenuDisplayingEventArgs e)
{
    //the menu request is associated with a valid DockWindow instance, which resides within a DocumentTabStrip
    if (e.MenuType == ContextMenuType.DockWindow &&
        e.DockWindow.DockTabStrip is DocumentTabStrip)
    {
        //remove the "Close" menu items
        for (int i = 0; i < e.MenuItems.Count; i++)
        {
            RadMenuItemBase menuItem = e.MenuItems[i];
            if (menuItem.Name == "CloseWindow" ||
                menuItem.Name == "CloseAllButThis" ||
                menuItem.Name == "CloseAll" ||
                menuItem is RadMenuSeparatorItem)
            {
                // In case you just want to disable to option you can set Enabled false
                //menuItem.Enabled = false;
                menuItem.Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed;
            }
        }
    }
}

Private Sub menuService_ContextMenuDisplaying(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ContextMenuDisplayingEventArgs)
    'the menu request is associated with a valid DockWindow instance, which resides within a DocumentTabStrip
    If e.MenuType = ContextMenuType.DockWindow AndAlso TypeOf e.DockWindow.DockTabStrip Is DocumentTabStrip Then
        'remove the "Close" menu items
        For i As Integer = 0 To e.MenuItems.Count - 1
            Dim menuItem As RadMenuItemBase = e.MenuItems(i)
            If menuItem.Name = "CloseWindow" OrElse menuItem.Name = "CloseAllButThis" OrElse menuItem.Name = "CloseAll" OrElse TypeOf menuItem Is RadMenuSeparatorItem Then
                ' In case you just want to disable to option you can set Enabled false
                'menuItem.Enabled = false;
                menuItem.Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed
            End If
        Next i
    End If
End Sub

The result is shown on the screenshot below:

Menu items' names

You can notice in the code snippet above that we are using the Name property of the items instead of the Text property. This allows you to handle the case even when a custom RadDockLocalization provider is applied. The names for the menu items in RadDock are:

Text	Name
Close	CloseWindow
Close All But This	CloseAllButThis
Close All	CloseAll
New Horizontal Tab Group	NewHTabGroup
New Vertical Tab Group	NewVTabGroup
Floating	Floating
Dockable	Docked
Tabbed Document	TabbedDocument
Auto Hide	AutoHide
Hide	Hidden
Document Name	ActivateWindow

See Also

Getting Started Using the CommandManager Understanding RadDock Using the DragDropService Document Manager