Recently I was asked to modify one of my controls so the user of the control could get the proper placement of thier context menus. My intial response was for them to use the placement properties on the ContextMenu/ContextMenuService to achieve the right positioning. Then the real issue came out....

I've been working on a problem of having a "popup" control in my project. For various reasons the Popup class isn't working for this scenario, because the scenario is outside the designed scope of Popup. So I've been looking at the AdornerLayer as a way to get a popup effect. One of the things I noticed...