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Shows how to create a context menu and how to replace the default context menu for text. |
Shows how to create a context menu and how to replace the default context menu for text.
Note: This sample is part of a large collection of UWP feature samples. You can download this sample as a standalone ZIP file from docs.microsoft.com, or you can download the entire collection as a single ZIP file, but be sure to unzip everything to access shared dependencies. For more info on working with the ZIP file, the samples collection, and GitHub, see Get the UWP samples from GitHub. For more samples, see the Samples portal on the Windows Dev Center.
This sample uses Windows.UI.Popups API, including the PopupMenu and the contextmenu | oncontextmenu event.
The sample demonstrates these two tasks:
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Creating a context menu to show for a file
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Replacing the default commands in the context menu that is shown for text
To learn about choosing commands and designing a context menu, see Guidelines and checklist for context menus.
For XAML-based apps, we recommend that developers use the ContextFlyout property to implement context menus This sample uses the PopupMenu class for illustration purposes.
Additional APIs for this sample include:
- UICommand class
- UICommandSeparator class
Note The Windows universal samples require Visual Studio to build and Windows 10 to execute.
To obtain information about Windows 10 development, go to the Windows Dev Center
To obtain information about Microsoft Visual Studio and the tools for developing Windows apps, go to Visual Studio
- ContextMenu sample for JavaScript (archived)
- Windows 10
- If you download the samples ZIP, be sure to unzip the entire archive, not just the folder with the sample you want to build.
- Start Microsoft Visual Studio and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
- Starting in the folder where you unzipped the samples, go to the Samples subfolder, then the subfolder for this specific sample, then the subfolder for your preferred language (C++, C#, or JavaScript). Double-click the Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.
The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.
- Select Build > Deploy Solution.
- To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or select Debug > Start Without Debugging.