This blog post demonstrates how to capture the right click event on a tree view in order to display a context menu.

At first, we need to drag and drop a new instances of the TreeView and ContextMenu controls from the Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox.

The xaml markup is shown below:

<UserControl x:Class="TreeViewContextMenu.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d"
    d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400" xmlns:viblendTreeView="clr-namespace:VIBlend.Silverlight.Controls;assembly=VIBlend.Silverlight.TreeView" xmlns:viblendMenu="clr-namespace:VIBlend.Silverlight.Controls;assembly=VIBlend.Silverlight.Menu">

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
        <viblendTreeView:TreeView Height="250" HorizontalAlignment="Center"  Name="treeView1" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="200">
            <viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem DisplayValue="Tree Item 1" IsExpanded="True">
                <viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem DisplayValue="Tree Sub Item 1" />
                <viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem DisplayValue="Tree Sub Item 2" />
                <viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem DisplayValue="Tree Sub Item 3" />
            </viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem>
            <viblendTreeView:TreeViewItem DisplayValue="Tree Item 2" />
        </viblendTreeView:TreeView>
        <viblendMenu:ContextMenu HorizontalAlignment="Left"  Name="contextMenu1" VerticalAlignment="Top">   
            <viblendMenu:MenuItem Click="AddItem_Click" Text="Add" />
            <viblendMenu:MenuItem Click="RemoveItem_Click" Text="Remove" />
            <viblendMenu:MenuItem Click="DisplayItem_Click" Text="Disable" />
         </viblendMenu:ContextMenu>
    </Grid>
</UserControl>

Then we need to subscribe to the MouseRightButtonDown event and we can do this either in the xaml markup or in code-behind:

C#

this.MouseRightButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(MainPage_MouseRightButtonDown); 

VB .NET

AddHandler MouseRightButtonDown, AddressOf MainPage_MouseRightButtonDown

After we subscribe to the MouseRightButtonDown event, we should implement its event handler. In the event handler, we display the ContextMenu control on the position where the right mouse button is clicked.

C#

void MainPage_MouseRightButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
   Point point = e.GetPosition(this.treeView1);
   if (point.X >= 0 && point.X <= this.treeView1.Width)
   {
       if (point.Y >= 0 && point.Y <= this.treeView1.Height)
       {
           Point contextMenuLocation = e.GetPosition(this);
           this.contextMenu1.Open(contextMenuLocation);
           e.Handled = true;
       }
   }
}

VB .NET

Private Sub MainPage_MouseRightButtonDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As MouseButtonEventArgs)
   Dim point As Point = e.GetPosition(Me.treeView1)
   If point.X >= 0 AndAlso point.X <= Me.treeView1.Width Then
      If point.Y >= 0 AndAlso point.Y <= Me.treeView1.Height Then
          Dim contextMenuLocation As Point = e.GetPosition(Me)
          Me.contextMenu1.Open(contextMenuLocation)
          e.Handled = True
       End If
   End If
End Sub

Finally, we implement the event handlers that will add, remove and disable TreeViewItem objects.

C#

private void AddItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.treeView1.SelectedItem != null)
    {
        TreeViewItem item = new TreeViewItem("New Item");
        this.treeView1.SelectedItem.Items.Add(item);
    }
}

private void RemoveItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.treeView1.SelectedItem != null)
    {
        if (this.treeView1.SelectedItem.ParentTreeViewItem != null)
        {
            this.treeView1.SelectedItem.ParentTreeViewItem.Items.Remove(this.treeView1.SelectedItem);
        }
        else if (this.treeView1.Items.Contains(this.treeView1.SelectedItem))
        {
            this.treeView1.Items.Remove(this.treeView1.SelectedItem);
        }
    }
}

private void DisableItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.treeView1.SelectedItem != null)
    {
        this.treeView1.SelectedItem.IsEnabled = false;
    }
}

VB .NET

Private Sub AddItem_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    If Me.treeView1.SelectedItem IsNot Nothing Then
        Dim item As New TreeViewItem("New Item")
        Me.treeView1.SelectedItem.Items.Add(item)
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub RemoveItem_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    If Me.treeView1.SelectedItem IsNot Nothing Then
        If Me.treeView1.SelectedItem.ParentTreeViewItem IsNot Nothing Then
            Me.treeView1.SelectedItem.ParentTreeViewItem.Items.Remove(Me.treeView1.SelectedItem)
        ElseIf Me.treeView1.Items.Contains(Me.treeView1.SelectedItem) Then
            Me.treeView1.Items.Remove(Me.treeView1.SelectedItem)
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub DisableItem_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    If Me.treeView1.SelectedItem IsNot Nothing Then
        Me.treeView1.SelectedItem.IsEnabled = False
    End If
End Sub

Here is the result: