ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using the TreeView Control

The TreeView control is similar to the Menu control. Like the Menu control, you can use the TreeView control to display hierarchical data. The TreeView control binds to any data source that implements the IHierarchicalDataSource or IHiearchicalEnumerable interface.

In this section, you learn how to add items declaratively to the TreeView control. You also learn how to bind a TreeView control to hierarchical data sources such as the SiteMapDataSource and XmlDataSource controls.

You also see how you can use the TreeView control with database data. A TreeView is built programmatically from database data.

Finally, you learn how you can use AJAX with the TreeView control to display large sets of data efficiently. By taking ...