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by Scott Guthrie
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I now have the basic site structure and layout defined for the sample site I am going to use to build my data samples. It has a consistent, centralized, layout and look and feel structure by using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Master Page feature. And my site and link structure is nicely encapsulated by the ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation system, which I’m also using to dynamically generate a navigation menu and breadcrumb UI for the site:

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Best of all, I didn’t need to write any code to enable this, and I still get full WYSIWYG designer support within Visual Web Developer.

Hope this helps. Lots of data samples are now going to follow…

Scott

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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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