BasePopupMenuShowingEventArgs.ShowCustomMenu(IDXDropDownControlEx) Method

Invokes a custom context menu instead of the control’s menu.

Namespace: DevExpress.Utils.Menu

Assembly: DevExpress.Utils.v25.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Utils, DevExpress.Wpf.Core

Declaration

C#

public void ShowCustomMenu(
    IDXDropDownControlEx popupMenu
)

VB.NET

Public Sub ShowCustomMenu(
    popupMenu As IDXDropDownControlEx
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
popupMenu	DevExpress.Utils.Menu.IDXDropDownControlEx	A custom context menu.

Remarks

To use the ShowCustomMenu method, you must:

1. Create a custom context menu (PopupMenu) as demonstrated in the following help topic: Popup Menus.
2. Pass this menu to the ShowCustomMenu method as a parameter.

The code sample below uses the ShowCustomMenu method to invoke a custom context menu when a user right-clicks a grid row:

C#

void gridView1_PopupMenuShowing(object sender, PopupMenuShowingEventArgs e) {
    if (e.MenuType == GridMenuType.Row)
        e.ShowCustomMenu(popupMenu1);
}

VB.NET

Private Sub gridView1_PopupMenuShowing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PopupMenuShowingEventArgs)
    If e.MenuType = GridMenuType.Row Then e.ShowCustomMenu(popupMenu1)
End Sub

Common concepts for custom context menus are listed in the following help topic: Custom Context Menus.

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippet (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contains a reference to the ShowCustomMenu(IDXDropDownControlEx) method.

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C#

winforms-grid-show-context-menu-for-rows/CS/FormGridMenu.cs#L18

    popupMenu_Row.Tag = e.HitInfo;
    e.ShowCustomMenu(popupMenu_Row);
}

VB.NET

winforms-grid-show-context-menu-for-rows/VB/FormGridMenu.vb#L19

    popupMenu_Row.Tag = e.HitInfo
    e.ShowCustomMenu(popupMenu_Row)
End If