context menu for removing items in listview

Question

I have a ListView which displays a list of string values. I want to add a context menu entry for each item in the list to remove the selected item. My XAML looks like this:

Answer 1

ContextMenus are disconnected, you cannot use ElementName bindings. One workaround would be using Binding.Source and x:Reference which requires you to extract parts that use it to be in the resources (due to cyclical dependency errors). You can just put the whole context menu there.

An example: