Question

I’m making the transition to MVC 3 and was attempting to create a friendly Menu Interface after the person logs onto the site. I stumbled across this article which suits what I need:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1583036.aspx/1

The third code sample is marvelous example of how I can dynamically build a menu interface. It contains the menu and the sub menu. The article creates a controller and a menu model, but I’ve struggled to get it implemented into Razor – has anyone successfully tried this route in a similar fashion?

Answer 1

Simply replace <%= with @:

@Html.MenuItem("Web Users", "Index", "Home")

In order to bring the MenuItem custom helper into scope for your Razor views make sure to reference it’s namespace inside the <namespaces> tag of ~/Views/web.config (and not ~/web.config):

<system.web.webPages.razor>
    <host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
        <namespaces>
            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
            <add namespace="SomeNamespace.Containing.The.Helper.Class" />
        </namespaces>
    </pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>