asp.net menu with web.sitemap

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hey !
ive encountered with a amateur , ambiguous issue about asp.net menu control .
i made a web.sitemap file as shown here :

XML

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
  <siteMapNode title="main">
    <siteMapNode title="Home" description="Home" url="~/default.aspx">
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode title="Products" description="">
      <siteMapNode title="mobile" description="Our products" url="~/mobile.aspx">
        <siteMapNode title="web based"   url="~/webbased.aspx" />
        <siteMapNode title="windows"   url="~/windows.aspx" />
      </siteMapNode>
    </siteMapNode>
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

and i want a menu control show it horizontally ... i wrote these simple lines :

ASP.NET

<div id="Menu" style="padding :20px;">
       <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" Runat="server" 
            DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource"
            Orientation="Horizontal">
      </asp:Menu>
      <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource" runat="server"/>
</div>

but it always show items vertically and submenus and parent menus listed as below :

VB

main
Home
Products
mobile
web based
windows

but it should be something like this :

XML

Home Products▼

in design time everything is as my wish but when i run it on any browser , menu showed me items as list, menus and submenus in vertically list... it dnt show me horizontally at all !

whats the problem ... can anyone help me?
thanks all to spending time!

Posted 19-Mar-13 0:31am

ali_heidari_

Updated 19-Mar-13 6:33am

v3

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Solution 1

Did you add provider?... in web.config???

XML

<siteMap>
            <providers>
                <add name="MainWebSitemap" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="Web.sitemap" securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/>
            </providers>
</siteMap>

and mapped this to the

<asp:SiteMapDataSource

tag?

Posted 19-Mar-13 0:55am

satz_770

Updated 19-Mar-13 0:57am

v2

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ali_heidari_ 19-Mar-13 7:13am

problem is not provier... sitemapdatasource will use web.sitemap file as default .... this provider you suggest is default.
anyway i used your advice but resault was as same before. items listed not like a menu with floating submenu .

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satz_770 · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-19T21:00:00

Hi! Hope this solves your problem!!! i've checked this in my local env. it's working as you expected..

XML

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" datasourceid="SiteMapDataSource1">
    </asp:Menu>
    <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />

and in sitemap file

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
  <siteMapNode url="Home" description="Home">
    <siteMapNode title="Home" description="Home" url="~/default.aspx" />
    <siteMapNode title="Products" description="">
      <siteMapNode title="mobile" description="Our products" url="~/mobile.aspx">
        <siteMapNode title="web based"   url="~/webbased.aspx" />
        <siteMapNode title="windows"   url="~/windows.aspx" />
      </siteMapNode>
    </siteMapNode>
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Ref:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecs0x9w5(v=vs.80).aspx[^]
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~~SATZ~~