Disable right click "Silverlight" popup in comboboxes - silverlight

Question

Hi
I'm trying to get rid of the annoying "About Silverlight" context menu that pops up whenever you right click in a Silverlight application. I've added the usual ways:
In App.xaml
rootVisual.MouseRightButtonDown += ((s, args) => args.Handled = true);
and the same for all ChildWindows.
The problem that persist is in all "pop up"-controls like comboboxes and datepicker calender popup. There I can't get rid of it. I would like to handle the right click in a style that I can make implicit for the entire application. Is this possible? Can I solve it some other smart way?
Best
Daniel

Answer 1

The answer was to inherit the combobox and make a custom control like this:
public class CellaComboBox : ComboBox
{
public CellaComboBox()
{
DropDownOpened += _dropDownOpened;
DropDownClosed += _dropDownClosed;
}
private static void _dropDownClosed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
HandlePopupRightClick(sender, false);
}
private static void _dropDownOpened(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
HandlePopupRightClick(sender, true);
}
private static void HandlePopupRightClick(object sender, bool hook)
{
ComboBox box = (ComboBox)sender;
var popup = box.GetChildElement<Popup>();
if (popup != null)
{
HookPopupEvent(hook, popup);
}
}
static void HookPopupEvent(bool hook, Popup popup)
{
if (hook)
{
popup.MouseRightButtonDown += popup_MouseRightButtonDown;
popup.Child.MouseRightButtonDown += popup_MouseRightButtonDown;
}
else
{
popup.MouseRightButtonDown -= popup_MouseRightButtonDown;
popup.Child.MouseRightButtonDown -= popup_MouseRightButtonDown;
}
}
static void popup_MouseRightButtonDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
e.Handled = true;
}
with the extension method for framworkelement looking like this:
public static class FrameworkElementExtensions
{
public static TType GetChildElement<TType>(this DependencyObject parent) where TType : DependencyObject
{
TType result = default(TType);
if (parent != null)
{
result = parent as TType;
if (result == null)
{
for (int childIndex = 0; childIndex < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); ++childIndex)
{
var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, childIndex) as FrameworkElement;
result = GetChildElement<TType>(child) as TType;
if (result != null) return result;
}
}
}
return result;
}
}
You need to handle the DatePicker in the same way but instead of DropDownOpened and DropDownClosed you use CalenderOpened and CalenderClosed

Answer 2

C# Corner has an article for fixing the about popup on Silverlight 3:
Disable Context Menu in Silverlight 3 Application