MVVM binding command to contextmenu item

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(Edit) Since you mentioned this is in an ItemsControl’s template, things are different:

1) Get the BindingProxy class from this blog (and read the blog, as this is interesting information): How to bind to data when the DataContext is not inherited.

Basically the elements in the ItemsControl (or ContextMenu) are not part of the visual or logical tree, and therefore cannot find the DataContext of your UserControl. My apologies for not writing more on this here, but the author has done a good job explaining it step by step, so there’s no way I could give a complete explanation in just a few lines.

2) Do something like this: (you may have to adapt it a bit to make it work in your control):

a. This will give you access to the UserControl DataContext using a StaticResource:

<UserControl.Resources>
<BindingProxy
  x:Key="DataContextProxy"
  Data="{Binding}" />
</UserControl.Resources>

b. This uses the DataContextProxy defined in (a):

<Button.ContextMenu>
 <ContextMenu>
     <MenuItem Header="Remove" CommandParameter="{Binding Name}"
         Command="{Binding Path=Data.RemoveCommand, Source={StaticResource DataContextProxy}}"/>
 </ContextMenu>

This has worked for us in things like trees and datagrids.

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