Show a contextmenu when right-click on a selected node of a lisview.

I believe you could do something like this:  maintain a reference to the ContextMenu, but initially set the ListView's ContextMenu to null. Then, add a SelectedIndexChanged handler and check which mouse button was pressed--if the right button was pressed, assign the menu to to the ListView's ContextMenu property; otherwise, assign null. To check which button was pressed, you can keep a global MouseButtons variable that you assign in handlers for both the MouseDown and MouseUp events of the ListView.

Here is an example:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace _27375273
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        MouseButtons button;
        ContextMenu menu;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            menu = new ContextMenu();
            menu.MenuItems.Add(new MenuItem("Copy", copyMenuItem_Click));
            menu.MenuItems.Add(new MenuItem("Paste", pasteMenuItem_Click));
        }

        private void copyMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Text copied.");
        }

        private void pasteMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Text pasted.");
        }

        private void listView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (button == MouseButtons.Right)
            {
                this.listView1.ContextMenu = menu;
            }
            else
            {
                this.listView1.ContextMenu = null;
            }
        }

        private void listView1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            button = e.Button;
        }

        private void listView1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            button = MouseButtons.None;
        }
    }
}

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There's a small bug in the above code which does not clear the menu after a selection has been made and a subsequent non-item click occurs. I'm looking into it.

Thansk.