Dynamic menu items in WPF

Question

Is there a way to create a section on a menu for a list of menu items to be populated by something like an ObservableCollection?

I'd like to replicate the Window functionality in Visual Studio, where the open document tabs are listed in a numbered list, limited to the first 10.

Answer 1

How does your menu get data right now? Is it databound? Check this article for binding your menu with a collection.

Now it is up to you to add logics when to add item to the collection.

For eg: In your scenario, you have to store the open documents in a list. Then you have to filter out the first 10 documents and add it to the children property of the MenuItem class specified in the article.

Answer 2

You can create menu items in code and manually add them to the menu when the form loads. It isn't elegant, but it gets the job done.

Answer 3

See "Merge ContextMenus" from here. You can find more info by searching for CompositeCollection and menu/ContextMenu.

EDIT: Just saw CompositeCollection was already mentioned in a comment, but I'm going to leave this here for reference.