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POBind ContextMenu's MenuItem visibility to ListView selection
 

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    <p>I have a user control with a ListView containing simple items from an ObservableCollection. I would like the ContextMenu of that ListView to contain items depending on what's selected in the ListView. If no item is selected, some MenuItems should not be visible. </p> <p>My converter isn't even called when I open the ContextMenu. The binding seems to be wrong, I find this in the output window:</p> <blockquote> <p>System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : Cannot find source for binding with reference 'ElementName=listView'. BindingExpression:Path=SelectedItem; DataItem=null; target element is 'MenuItem' (Name=''); target property is 'Visibility' (type 'Visibility')</p> </blockquote> <p>I don't understand what's wrong and could not figure it out by searching the web.</p> <p>Here is some simplified code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;UserControl x:Class="MyApp.DatabaseControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:l="clr-namespace:MyApp" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"&gt; &lt;UserControl.Resources&gt; &lt;l:ValueToVisibilityConverter x:Key="valueToVisibility" /&gt; &lt;/UserControl.Resources&gt; &lt;Grid&gt; &lt;ListView x:Name="listView" ItemsSource="{Binding Persons}"&gt; &lt;ListView.View&gt; &lt;GridView&gt; &lt;GridViewColumn Width="140" Header="First Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}"/&gt; &lt;GridViewColumn Width="140" Header="Last Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}" /&gt; &lt;/GridView&gt; &lt;/ListView.View&gt; &lt;ListView.ContextMenu&gt; &lt;ContextMenu&gt; &lt;MenuItem Header="Open" Visibility="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=listView, Converter={StaticResource valueToVisibility}}"/&gt; &lt;Separator/&gt; &lt;MenuItem Header="Add..."/&gt; &lt;MenuItem Header="Remove"/&gt; &lt;/ContextMenu&gt; &lt;/ListView.ContextMenu&gt; &lt;/ListView&gt; &lt;/Grid&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>Thanks a lot!</p>
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