Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6

Updated: at 11:17 PM

Article Series

Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site
Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters
Article 3: Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NET
Article 4: Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow Component
Article 5: Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs
Article 6: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!)

I always intended to put the source code for this project online, however I just kept not getting around to it.  In this article, I’m attaching a Visual Studio 2008 Solution that includes both the modified CSS Friendly Control Adapter as well as a sample application that demonstrates the technique in this series.  I’m actually using the Code Camp CSS since that is the site that this solution was written for.  I’ve created a much abbreviated version of the Code Camp Site Project for this demonstration.  Below is the source code (finally).

Visual Studio 2008 Solution CSSFriendlyCustomMenu

The solution is load out as follows:

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There are two projects (actually, one class library and a web site).  The class library really is just the CSS Friendly Controls library with small modifications to the menu class.  The WebSample web project is just a stripped down version of the code camp site to demonstrate the techniques used.  When you run the web site, you should see results like the following.

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Notice that when the speakers page is shown, the Program menu stays highlighted.

And, the sitemap is as follows:

   1: <siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
   2:   <siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="HOME"  description="Silicon Valley CodeCamp 08">
   3:     <siteMapNode url="Register.aspx" title="REGISTER"  description=""  />
   4:     <siteMapNode url="Program.aspx" title="PROGRAM"  description="">
   5:       <siteMapNode url="SessionsOverview.aspx" title="Session Overview"  description="Session Overview" />
   6:       <siteMapNode url="Speakers.aspx" title="Speakers"  description="" />
   7:     </siteMapNode>
   8:     <siteMapNode url="News.aspx" title="NEWS"  description="" />
   9:   </siteMapNode>
  10: </siteMap>

That’s it!

Good luck with this.