I have a main menu mnuMainMenu consisting of several sub-menus. One of the sub-menus mnuMostRecentDirs is itself another menu that has it's items generated at run time, using the ItemSource property bound to an ObservableCollection. Basically it's displaying a list of the most recently used folders.

The issue is that the MenuItems added dynamically generate the following data binding error:

System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : Cannot find source for binding with reference 'RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType='System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl', AncestorLevel='1''. BindingExpression:Path=HorizontalContentAlignment; DataItem=null; target element is 'MenuItem' (Name=''); target property is 'HorizontalContentAlignment' (type 'HorizontalAlignment')

The XAML declaration of the main menu goes something like this:

 <!-- Main Menu -->
 <Menu x:Name="mnuMainMenu" Height="Auto" IsMainMenu="True">

    <!--- ... more menu declarations before ... -->

    <MenuItem x:Name="mnuitemWorkDirs" Header="Directories">
       <MenuItem x:Name="mnuNewDir"
                 Header="New" 
                 Style="{StaticResource MenuItem}" 
                 Command="{x:Static cmds:Commands.NewDirectory}" />
       <MenuItem x:Name="mnuCurrentDir"
                 Header="Current" 
                 Style="{StaticResource MenuItem}"
                 Command="{x:Static cmds:Commands.CurrentDirectory}" />
       <MenuItem x:Name="mnuMostRecentDirs" 
                 Header="Recent Directories.."
                 Style="{StaticResource MenuItem}"
                 ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=theMain, Path=MostRecentFoldersList}" />
    </MenuItem>

    <!--- ... more menu declarations after ... -->
 </Menu>

And the foll

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