Multiple usage of MenuItems declared once (WPF)

Question

Is it possible in WPF to define some menu structure and than use it in multiple contexts? For example I'd like to use a set of menu items from resources in ContextMenu, Window's menu and ToolBar (ToolBar with icons only, without headers). So items order, commands, icons, separators must be defined just once.

I look for something like this:

Declaration in resources:

<MenuItem Command="MyCommands.CloneObject" 
          CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Clone">
    <MenuItem.Icon> 
        <Image Source="Images\Clone.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
    </MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Command="MyCommands.RemoveCommand" 
            CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Remove">
    <MenuItem.Icon>
        <Image Source="Images\Remove.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
    </MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<Separator/>
<MenuItem Command="MyCommands.CreateChild" 
            CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Create child">
    <MenuItem.Icon>
        <Image Source="Images\Child.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
    </MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>

Usage:

<ToolBar MenuItems(?)="{Reference to set of items}" ShowText(?)="false" />

and

<ContextMenu MenuItems(?)="{Reference to set of items}" />

Answer 1

You can do like this - make a user control and reuse that - the other will not work as UIElements only can one parent:

CustomMenu.xaml

<MenuItem x:Class="MyApplication.CustomMenu"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"&gt;
    <MenuItem Command="MyCommands.CloneObject" 
          CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Clone">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <Image Source="Images\Clone.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>
    <MenuItem Command="MyCommands.RemoveCommand" 
            CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Remove">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <Image Source="Images\Remove.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>
    <Separator/>
    <MenuItem Command="MyCommands.CreateChild" 
            CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedObject}" Header="Create child">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <Image Source="Images\Child.png" Height="16" Width="16"></Image>
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>
</MenuItem>

Code-behind CustomMenu.xaml.cs:

public partial class CustomMenu
{
    public CustomMenu()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

And then use it in xaml like this:

<ToolBar>
    <local:CustomMenu/>
</ToolBar>
<ContextMenu>
    <local:CustomMenu/>
</ContextMenu>

Hope this helps.