Binding to Database Data
You can’t bind a Menu control directly to database data. Neither the SqlDataSource nor ObjectDataSource controls implement the IHierachicalDataSource interface. Therefore, if you want to represent database data with the Menu control, you need to perform some more work.
One option is to create your own SqlHiearachicalDataSource control. You can do this either by deriving from the base HiearchicalDataSourceControl class or implementing the IHiearchicalDataSource interface. You take this approach in the final section of this chapter, when a custom SqlHierarchicalDataSource control is built.
A second option is to build the menu items programmatically in the Menu control. This is the approach followed here.
Imagine that you ...
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