Correct way to create a menu with shortcuts in WPF

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Published on 2010-06-08T04:16:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 4:22 UTC
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What is the correct/best way to create a menu with hotkey shortcuts?

I simply want a File menu like Visual Studio's that has New, Open, Save, Save All, Exit, and a few other standard shortcuts.

It seems that InputGestureText displays the appropriate text, but since it's called "Text" and doesn't seem to trigger events, I'm going to assume that isn't the right way to do it. The Command architecture also seems fairly bulky, so I don't want to head down that path if there is a better way.

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