Question

I have a have a table with Region_Name, Region_ID fields, and another one with Area_Name, Region_ID fields (each region have Areas that belongs to it). I want to display on my asp.net page a list of links (something that looks like a treeView) so when someone clicks on for ex The Bronx from Region New York in this list:

• New York

  • The Bronx

  • Brooklyn

  • Manhattan

• Kentucky

  • Ashland

  • Bardstown

• New Jersey

  • Essex

  • Middlesex

etc….etc… So, apart from the basics, i want to know how to populate the above list Automatically and make sure that the results are ALL Links, in other words, New York is a link, The Bronx is a link, and all the elements in the list are links that i will later attach a queryString to…

I am using VB.Net and ASP.Net 3.5. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Thanks for all who answered or attempted to. I found out a different yet easy solution:

In my page_load i called:

labelwhatever.text = outputRegionAsLinks()

and the function is:

Private Function outputRegionAsLinks() As String     Dim sb As New StringBuilder     Dim regionsTable As GKP.tblRegionsDataTable = Regions.GetRegions()      For Each region In regionsTable         sb.Append('<a href=''>')         sb.Append(region.RegionName)         sb.Append('</a>')         sb.Append('<br />')     Next        Return sb.ToString  End Function 

This way i can avoid the overload of creating asp link buttons or hyperlinks, and directly inject html tags in my form, and also tailor the links as i wish them to be.