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Published: 17 Jan 2006

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In this article, Scott examines how to build a master page and site navigation structure using ASP.NET 2.0 in a series of step-by-step demonstrations.

by Scott Guthrie
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Introduction

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This past weekend I posted a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a strongly-typed DAL (data access layer) using Visual Web Developer (which is free) and ASP.NET 2.0.

My plan over the next few weeks is to post many follow-up samples that show various ways to use this DAL to build common data scenarios using ASP.NET 2.0 (master details, filtering, sorting, paging, 2-way data-binding, editing, insertion, deletion, hierarchical data browsing, hierarchical drill-down, optimistic concurrency, and more).

Before doing that, I wanted to setup a common site structure to help organize all of these samples. I wanted to make sure that all the samples in the site shares a consistent look and feel, and that the site has an easy to navigate site structure. Thankfully this is now very easy using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Master Page and Site Navigation features (and can be done without having to write any code).

Here is a screen-shot of the sample site skeleton I put together:

Figure 1

You can download the site sample here. The below set of tutorials walks-through how I built it:

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User Comments

Title: Nice and Precise Article
Name: 'Bode Bowoto
Date: 2010-02-01 9:57:19 AM
Comment:
thank u scott,u've really made my day,with these nice article.it provides a clear and precise explanation of how to create a navigational bar in relation to the web app.

Title: Nice Article
Name: Rick
Date: 2009-12-02 3:39:17 PM
Comment:
I learned alot from you article. Thanks for taking the time to put it together

Title: Nice Moves
Name: James.F
Date: 2009-09-18 1:28:55 AM
Comment:
Scott -

Many thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for with the second level repeater nav structure. It would be nice if "the soft" would make their examples half this good!

Title: thank
Name: Michele P.
Date: 2009-07-16 11:27:12 AM
Comment:
Hi,
great tutorial it was what i m looking for today!
just a things, you wrote:
"((SiteMapNode) Container.DataItem).ChildNodes()"
but the right way is without () like this
"((SiteMapNode) Container.DataItem).ChildNodes"

Sry fo my bad English.
Bye and thank for tutorial.

Title: Master Pages and Site Nav
Name: Mahesh Wagh
Date: 2007-08-13 7:49:16 PM
Comment:
Thanks Scott. This tutorial gives a good basic understanding of the navigation features. If you have written any detailed articles on the same, can you link them on this page?

Title: css
Name: JK
Date: 2007-04-25 3:00:23 AM
Comment:
Hi, great tutorial.

Can u include the stylesheet.css that u have created for your tutorial?

Thanks,
JK

Title: SiteNavigation System
Name: Srikanth
Date: 2006-12-19 3:46:05 AM
Comment:
Need more

Title: Comment
Name: sasharus
Date: 2006-10-20 5:26:35 AM
Comment:
cool

Title: Data Tutorial 2: Building our Master Page and Site Navigation Structure
Name: Sean Killeen (SeanKilleen@gmail.com)
Date: 2006-07-17 11:59:52 AM
Comment:
Scott Gives a great example of converting a sitemap datasource to a bulleted list in this article. However, a code substitution he provided for use in C# does not work. In Visual Studio 2005, I am given the error message, 'System.Web.SiteMapNode.ChildNodes' is a 'property' but is used like a 'method'. Is there a better way to do this?

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