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SourceControl of ContextMenuStrip is Nothing in ToolStripMenuItem Click?

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I had this exact same question a couple weeks ago, and in reality, nobody could figure out why this behavior was occurring. Take a look at the question I asked, the solution I was given worked great.

AndyPerfect 2010-06-22 22:43:39

@AndyPerfect thank you, but I need to get the SourceControl linked to the ContextMenu when the item is clicked because this menu is reused on more DataGridView instances. I don't like to create a different ContextMenu for each DataGridView.

marco.ragogna 2010-06-23 09:10:44

There's no need to have a different ContextMenu for each form object. Rather, have a single ContextMenu. As the form is loading, add a Mouse.click handler for each object, which calls a method which in turn opens up the ContextMenu. You should be able to handle it perfectly like that. If you really need the source control, which in reality was the form object clicked, have a global variable such as "ObjectToOpenContextMenu" that is set withing that right click handler. That way, depending on what the user clicks within the contextmenu, the global variable is, in effect, the sourcecontrol.

AndyPerfect 2010-06-23 14:47:25

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I found a workaround that is not really the answer to the question. So I will leave it open for a while.

I used the ContextMenuStrip Opening event to store locally the source object.

Private Sub contextGrid_Opening(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles contextGrid.Opening

  _ContextSourceGrid = DirectCast(contextGrid.SourceControl, DataGridView)

End Sub

and refer directly to the saved object inside all ToolStripMenuItem Click events.

marco.ragogna 2010-06-28 13:27:41

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