How to bring a menu to front of a navigation frame in silverlight?

Question

The situation:

I Have a silverlight page with a header menu, a navigation frame and a footer. In my header menu I want to put a drop down menu, but when I open the menu, it goes backward of the frame.

Theres a way to put it forward? Canvas.ZIndex make no difference at all.

thanks in advice

Answer 1

If you can place the drop down menu later in the XAML, it will appear above.

So you want to have this hierarchy:

Grid
    Grid
       Your navigation frame
    Grid
       The menu

Answer 2

You can use this free opensource menu for this purpose:

www.sl4popupmenu.codeplex.com

It brings the content on top by placing in a Popup control.

Answer 3

For me to get this to work, the navigation frame had to be in a grid that was a child of the grid my menu was in.

Like so:

Grid "FullPageGrid"
   Grid
      Menu Stuff
      Grid
         Navigation Frame

Not sure why that works, but it does.