ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Creating Custom Site Map Providers

Site Maps use the provider model. This means that you can easily modify or extend the way Site Maps work by creating your own Site Map provider.

In this section, we create two custom Site Map providers. First, we create the AutoSiteMapProvider. This provider automatically builds a Site Map based on the file and folder structure of a website.

Next, we create a SqlSiteMapProvider. This provider enables you to store a Site Map in a Microsoft SQL Server database table instead of an XML file.