Menu server control not correctly shows up

Mahesha999 · July 26th, 2011, 02:54 AM

HI I am experimenting Menu server control

I have the Web.sitemap file with content:

I drag-dropped the SiteMapDataSource. If I am correct, it directly connects to the .sitemap file (as I did this for TreeView earlier, it worked)

Then I drag-dropped Menu server control, set its datadource to above SiteMapDataSource & hit F5. But did not showed up the content in .sitemap
as a hierarchy that unfolds on hovering, but showed all the contents statically on the page:

crome snapshot: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2044/aspnetmenu.png

however Visual Studio shows it up correctly in the design view:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7141/vsmenuctrl.png

Why is this?

ASPX code:

Code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        
        <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
        </asp:Menu>
        
    </div>
    <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Web.sitemap content:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
  <siteMapNode title="Home" description="Home Page" url="Default.aspx">
    <siteMapNode title="News" description="The Latest News" url="News.aspx">
      <siteMapNode title="U.S." description="U.S. News"
      url="News.aspx?cat=us" />
      <siteMapNode title="World" description="World News"
      url="News.aspx?cat=world" />
      <siteMapNode title="Technology" description="Technology News"
      url="News.aspx?cat=tech" />
      <siteMapNode title="Sports" description="Sports News"
      url="News.aspx?cat=sport" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode title="Finance" description="The Latest Financial Information"
    url="Finance.aspx">
      <siteMapNode title="Quotes" description="Get the Latest Quotes"
      url="Quotes.aspx" />
      <siteMapNode title="Markets" description="The Latest Market Information"
      url="Markets.aspx">
        <siteMapNode title="U.S. Market Report"
        description="Looking at the U.S. Market" url="MarketsUS.aspx" />
        <siteMapNode title="NYSE"
        description="The New York Stock Exchange" url="NYSE.aspx" />
      </siteMapNode>
      <siteMapNode title="Funds" description="Mutual Funds"
      url="Funds.aspx" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode title="Weather" description="The Latest Weather"
    url="Weather.aspx" />
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

morteza · September 13th, 2011, 02:17 PM

Hi Mahesha
If you need only show breadcrumb( sitemappath) navigation, You need not to specify sitemap file in sitemapdatasource and asp.net find it automatically.
However if you use TreeView or Menu Control You must specify sitemap address in sitemapdatasource control.