ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Creating the AutoSiteMapProvider

All Site Map providers inherit from the base SiteMapProvider class. If you want to create your own Site Map provider, you can override the methods of this base class.

However, in most cases it makes more sense to derive a custom Site Map provider from the base StaticSiteMapProvider class. This is the base class for the default Site Map provider—the XmlSiteMapProvider—and this class includes default implementations of many of the SiteMapProvider methods.

This AutoSiteMapProvider derives from the StaticSiteMapProvider class. It overrides two methods of the base class: GetRootNodeCore() and BuildSiteMap().

The GetRootNodeCore() method returns the root node of the Site Map. The BuildSiteMap() method is the method ...