How do I reuse item children via a style in XAML?

Question

I have a WPF submenu that I want to reuse in a few places in my XAML. It\'s a collection of eight elements with some complicated bindings that I do

Answer 1

How about something like this:

You'll need to create the following collection in your resource dictionary:

<Collections:ArrayList x:Key="MenuItems" x:Shared="false">
    <MenuItem Header="Details" />
    <MenuItem Header="List" />
    <MenuItem Header="Thumbnails" />
</Collections:ArrayList>

You'll need to add the following namespace:

xmlns:Collections="clr-namespace:System.Collections;assembly=mscorlib"

...

And then just use the collection:

<Menu ItemsSource="{StaticResource MenuItems}" />

...

<ContextMenu>
    <MenuItem Header="View" ItemsSource="{StaticResource MenuItems}" />
</ContextMenu>