Using context menu within a custom web part

Question

Hello,
I'm fairly new to SharePoint and currently experimenting with some stuff.
Now I have a list with folders and documents and instead of the regular list view, I've created a custom (visual) web part that shows the list in a sort of tree.
In this tree I want to add a control for each document only that has the same appearance as the default context menu found in the standard list views.
The long term goal is to have a custom (visual) web part, that shows the hierarchical structure of the list and has a (on hover only) context menu for the documents.
I do have extended experience with ASP.Net, but I cannot find any resource to add the context menu (or one that looks, feels and behaves the same) at will at self defined location.
Note that by default these items don't have a context menu, so how to add it in the first place?
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Stefan

Answer 1

I would start by looking at the HTML/Javascript structure of the ECB menus (drop down menus on itmes) and see if you can replicate the HTML snippet in your custom control.
Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade Microsoft Certified Professional & Software Engineer http://nikcharlebois.com
In the end I ended up using this method, unfortunately...
However the structure (read look-and-feel) is not identical to the ECB and more modern.
For example, all actions are icons aligned at the right of each row and appear while hovering over that one row.
It has been a lot of work to extract the Javascript from the ECB to get everything working, especially regarding deleting and adding items from/to a list.