Chp 7 Try it Out Adding Menu to Site Issue

oIse7enIo · December 22nd, 2016, 09:00 PM

Hello, I'm working on Chapter 7 Try it Out Adding Menu to Site pg. 248:

My issue is that when I put the <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" CssClass="MainMenu"> into the MasterPage, and go to Design, it says Root Node or Parent Node. Never says "Home" as the book states it should. When I take it a step further and change SiteMapDataSource>ShowStartingNode to False, it doesn't show all the menus, It just shows SIbling Node 1, current Node, Sibling Node 2, Sibling node 3. What's going on?

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0">
  <siteMapNode url="~/" title="Home" description="Home">
    <siteMapNode url="~/Default" title="Home" description="Go to the homepage" />
    <siteMapNode url="~/Reviews/Default" title="Reviews" description="Reviews published on this site">
      <siteMapNode url="~/Reviews/AllByGenre" title="By Genre" description="All Reviews Grouped by Genre" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Reviews/All" title="All Reviews" description="All Reviews" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/About/Default" title="About" description="About this Site">
      <siteMapNode url="~/About/Contact" title="Contact Us" description="Contact Us" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/About/AboutUs" title="About Us" description="About Us" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/Login" title="Login" description="Log in to this web site" />
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Code:

<%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Frontend.master.cs" Inherits="MasterPages_Frontend" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="head" runat="server">
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>   
    <script src="/Scripts/modernizr-2.8.3.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div id="PageWrapper">
        <header><a href ="/"></a></header>
        <nav>
            <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" CssClass="MainMenu" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
            </asp:Menu>
            <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="False" />
        </nav>
        <section id="MainContent">
            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID ="cpMainContent" runat="server">

            </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
        </section>
        <aside id="Sidebar">
            Select a Theme
            <br />
            <asp:DropDownList ID="ThemeList" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ThemeList_SelectedIndexChanged">
                <asp:ListItem>Monochrome</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem>DarkGrey</asp:ListItem>
            </asp:DropDownList>
        </aside>
        <footer>Footer Goes Here</footer>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Imar · December 27th, 2016, 07:14 AM

Hi there,

I tried your code on my copy of the Planet Wrox web site and it's working fine. What name did you give to the sitemap file? Did you store it in the root of the site?

Imar

oIse7enIo · December 27th, 2016, 03:38 PM

Hey Imar,

The Sitemap name is Web.sitemap

It's in the Site folder, it shows right under the Web.config folder, not in the config folder, just under it.

I can't seem to find a way to upload an image to the boards, but mine is showing "Parent Node" instead of Home, Reviews, By Genre, All Reviews.

Can't figure it out, been stuck on it for quite some time now.

Chris.

Imar · December 27th, 2016, 03:43 PM

Can you zip up the site, delete all irrelevant files that are not needed to reproduce the issue and then upload that zip somewhere? Then I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out.

Imar

oIse7enIo · December 27th, 2016, 03:56 PM

<a href=http://www.filedropper.com/begaspnet><img src=http://www.filedropper.com/download_button.png width=127 height=145 border=0/></a><br /><div style=font-size:9px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:127px;font-color:#44a854;> <a href=http://www.filedropper.com >file upload storage</a></div>

I hope this is what you needed. This is all the files I've done up until this section. Hope this works, if not, here is a direct link:

http://www.filedropper.com/begaspnet

Imar · December 27th, 2016, 04:08 PM

Can you upload it to a less dubious site? My firewall is blocking this site.

Imar

oIse7enIo · December 27th, 2016, 04:19 PM

Trying this website

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=...27578782331338

If this doesn't work, do you have any other suggestions?

Imar · December 27th, 2016, 04:44 PM

It works for me when I open the folder begASPNET\Site

Are you maybe opening begASPNET directly instead of the Site subfolder? Your App_Code and App_Themes folder in begASPNET seems to suggest so. Those folders should be in the same location as web.config and web.sitemap.

Hope this helps,

Imar

oIse7enIo · December 27th, 2016, 04:47 PM

I was opening the whole BegASP folder.

I wasn't just opening the site subfolder!

So I placed the App_Code and App_Themes into the Site Subfolder and opened the Site Subfolder and it's working!

Thank you so much!

Imar · December 28th, 2016, 11:43 AM

Great, glad to hear it was an easy fix.

Imar