I have a dynamic menuItem but I can't get an object field from this menu

Question

I asked a question a bit earlier about the same thing, but I have an other problem.

I need help about a dynamic menu I have. I want to get the "path" of objects in my menu.

Here is my wpf, you can see I binded Value="{Binding name}"/> because I want to display the names in my menu, not the path:

<Menu HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="30" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="525" IsMainMenu="True">
            <MenuItem Header="Menu" x:Name="myList" Click="myList_Click">
                <MenuItem.ItemContainerStyle>
                    <Style>

                        <Setter Property="MenuItem.Header" Value="{Binding name}"/>

                    </Style>
                </MenuItem.ItemContainerStyle>
            </MenuItem>
 </Menu>

I binded a collection with "this.myList.ItemsSource = list;", it's what displays my dynamic menu,so here's my mainwindow.cs:

 public MainWindow()
{

  var list = new List<History>
        {
                new History() { name = "Guy1", path = "C:/F1/}"},
                new History() { name = "Guy2", path = "C:/F2/"},
                new History() { name = "Guy3", path = "C:/F3/"},
                new History() { name = "Guy4", path = "C:/F4"},
        };

    InitializeComponent();

    this.myList.ItemsSource = list;
}

private void myList_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    DependencyObject obj = (DependencyObject)e.OriginalSource;
    while (obj != null && obj != myList)
    {

        if (obj.GetType() == typeof(MenuItem))
        {
            MessageBox.Show((e.OriginalSource as MenuItem).Header.ToString());
            break;
        }
        obj = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(obj);
    }
}

And here is a simple class that I named "History":

namespace MediaPlayer
{
public class History
{
    // "prop" puis "tab"
    public String name { get; set; }
    public String path { get; set; }
    public int time { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return path;
    }
}
}

What I want to do is when I click on, for example, Guy1, I want my software to display a message that says "C:/F1/" because it's Guy1, for GUY2 I want "C:/F2/".

Do you have any idea? Do you know how can I acess the path of my object by using something like this? : MessageBox.Show((e.OriginalSource as MenuItem).Header.ToString());

Thanks.

EDIT :

<Menu HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="30" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="525" IsMainMenu="True">
                <MenuItem Header="Menu" x:Name="myList" Click="myList_Click">
                    <MenuItem.ItemContainerStyle>

                        <Style TargetType="{x:Type MenuItem}">
                            <EventSetter  Event="Click" Handler="MyItemClick"/>
                        </Style>
                    </MenuItem.ItemContainerStyle>
                </MenuItem>
            </Menu>

Answer 1

(easy solution)

You can use an EventSetter inside the Style for your MenuItem . Syntax as such:

<EventSetter Event="Click" Handler="MyItemClick" />

Inside the event handler code you can find out which item was clicked:

public void MyItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var clickedMenuItem = (MenuItem)sender;
    var clickedHistoryItem = (History)clickedMenuItem.DataContext;
    //do stuff with whatever "guy" was clicked
}

(more advanced option)

Note that using the MVVM Pattern , you can create a Command object inside the history item, and handle whatever you need to handle from there. The syntax would be:

<Setter Property="Command" Value="{Binding ClickCommand}" />

You can look into the MVVM pattern, but the learning curve is quite steep. It will definetely pay off once your program grows through.