Summary

With the navigation controls that ship with ASP.NET 2.0, building site navigation has never been easier. In this chapter we started by building a custom SiteMapProvider that reads off the MCMS repository to populate a site map. Next, we showed how a SiteMapPath control works with the custom SiteMapProvider to provide a breadcrumb trail of links that show the user exactly where he or she is in the site. We saw that no extra programming was required for the SiteMapPath control to work correctly. Following which, we looked at the Menu control. We built two versions of the control—a static horizontal menu placed at the top of the page, and a dynamic vertical menu located on the right-hand side of the page. Finally, we demonstrated how the TreeView control could be used together with the SiteMapProvider to provide a comprehensive view of the site's hierarchy. We showed how it can be configured to populate nodes on demand as well as part of a channel-rendering script to display a summary...