Setting Up the Menu Control

You will need to add a Site Map file to your project, which serves as the data file for the SiteMapDataSource control you added in the previous lesson. This file contains the hierarchy of the links shown in the Menu control.

1.  In the Solution Explorer right-click the project and select Add New Item. Select the Site Map template and click on the Add button.

After it has been added, the Site Map file is loaded into the Code Editor window.

2. In web.SiteMap replace the existing the siteMapNode element and its contents with the following XML fragment.

<siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home" description="" >
	<siteMapNode url="ContentPage.aspx" title="My Content Page" description=""  />
	<siteMapNode url="Authors.aspx" title="Authors" description=""  />
</siteMapNode>

You have already added the Authors.aspx page to your project, but it does not yet inherit from the Master Page you created. ContentPage.aspx is a page you will create in the next lesson. It will inherit from the Master Page.