Best way to set a MenuItem's sub-menu height?

Question

I currently have a menuitem (part of a context menu), with about ~35 menu items. Because of this, it causes the sub-menu to be huge. Even though I have scrolling ability, I woul

Answer 1

Unfortunately, WPF does not allow this to be modified by properties. You will have to modify the default ControlTemplate.

EDIT: I revised the blog entry on that here

Here is a sample (notice the addition of "MaxHeight" on "SubMenuScrollViewer"):

This is just to override the Aero theme. As you can see there is a lot of XAML for the MenuItem, so it's not graceful. Just make a separate ResourceDictionary to keep things tidy.