Scott on Writing

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/11/2003 7:06 AM Adam Kinney

Wow, this is awesome. Yesterday, I realized I had enough of the Infragistics Web Menu and all of its shinanigans, so I decided to write my own. An hour into it I found this post sitting in my Sharp Reader...

Thanks for the big boost on getting my menu up and running!

First thing I added was support for rollover. I'm a designer, man, I need my images! :D

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/11/2003 4:12 PM Scott Mitchell

Glad to like it, Adam. I have a slew of updates from various users in the queue, that I'll add to skmMenu eventually. Rollover support is there, as well as some bug fixes for JavaScript errors in IE 5.01. The only problem is I've been too busy lately to encorporate these changes into the release code.

Meh.

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/12/2003 10:46 AM Mike Schellenberger

Scott,

Great article and control, I can't wait for the second part. Whats the ETA on part 2?

May I suggest you include a sample xml menu file with the source.

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/12/2003 11:49 AM Adam Kinney

I actually worked on it some more and I ended up breaking it out to override the Render methods for the Menu and MenuItem to create their own individual output when its time for them to render.

I did this because I wanted to be able to make changes to each item after it was databound. For example changing an image to a disabled image if the user doesn't have security.

As I am working on replacing the Infragistics menu, I also had to add in the obligatory dropshadow too...

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/12/2003 8:46 PM Scott Mitchell

Mike, I already wrote Part 2, so it's up to Kent Sharkey (the ASP.NET Dev Center owner) when it's time to get posted.

If you download the project code, there should be a sample menu file, menuData.xml, IIRC. There's also one online here:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/MenuData.xml

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 11/14/2003 5:04 AM Mike Schellenberger

Scott,
I checked again and there was no menuData.xml with the source for .NET 1.1 version I downloaded a couple of days ago.

Also had some issues related to proxy server here that took a couple of hours to overcome. Here is what I had to do to get things to go thru the proxy server.
WebProxy proxy = new WebProxy("http://webproxy:80/", true);
proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
GlobalProxySelection.Select = proxy();

This might be a nice addition to the article/project as there is really not a lot of info out there relating to getting thru a proxy.

Keep up the great work.

Mike Schellenberger - MCAD

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 12/12/2003 1:02 AM Maqsood

Scott
Demo is Great

But Why Can't i add this to my Toolbox in VS.NET 2002

mac

# re: Building an ASP.NET Menu Server Control 12/12/2003 9:24 AM Scott Mitchell

The Version 1.3, I believe, was designed for .NET Framework 1.1. What you'll need to do is create your own VS.NET 2002 project, copy in the files, and build the project. Then, add *that* compiled assembly to your Toolbox.

For further discussion, let's take this to the skmMenu Messageboards - http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/messageBoard.aspx?id=5587