Binding to a Site Map
Like the SiteMapPath
control, you can use the Menu
control with a Site Map. Users can click menu items to navigate to particular pages in your website. Unlike the SiteMapPath
control, however, the Menu
control does not automatically bind to a Site Map. You must explicitly bind the Menu
control to a SiteMapDataSource
control to display nodes from a Site Map.
For example, the page in Listing 22.8 contains a menu that contains links to all the pages in a website (see Figure 22.8).
Figure 22.8. Displaying a Site Map with a Menu
control.
Listing 22.8. UsingMenu/MenuSiteMap.aspx
When you initially open the page in Listing 22.8 ...
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