October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
Using the
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Using the Menu Control
The Menu control enables you to create two types of menus. You can use the Menu control to create the left-column menu that appears in many websites. In other words, you can use the Menu control to display a vertical list of links.
You also can use the Menu control to create a menu that more closely resembles the drop-down menus that appear in traditional desktop applications. In this case, the Menu control renders a horizontal list of links.
Unlike the SiteMapPath control, the Menu control can represent other types of data than Site Map data. Technically, you can bind a Menu control to any data source that implements the IHiearchicalDataSource or IHiearchicalEnumerable interface.
In this section, you learn how to create ...