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Looking for a way to add dynamic pop-out menus to your website?
In ASP.NET 1.0 and Visual Studio 2003 you had only two options — build it yourself in JavaScript or resort to a third-party solution. Fortunately ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 provide a much better solution — the new Menu server control.
The new menu server control emits the JavaScript necessary to create a great-looking pop-out menu customized to your look-and-feel requirements and provides hierarchical links to all the high-points on your site.
Unfortunately, leveraging this control isn’t quite as easy as dropping it on your form.
In this video, you’ll learn how to create an XML-based site-map description document that the Menu control can use as its DataSource for displaying menu option links in the appropriate structure. You also discover how to use the built-in styles to customize the colors and fonts used by the menu. In short, you’ll have everything you need to take your site navigation to a whole new level.
