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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:23:50+00:00

i’ve found how to bind an asp:Menu to XML. i’ve found how to bind

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i’ve found how to bind an asp:Menu to XML. i’ve found how to bind an asp:Menu to a site map (which is really binding it to XML). How do you bind an asp:Menu to a database?

The .NET Framework provides multiple data sources:

i want to use one that represents data from an SQL Server table. The data is stored in the standard hierarchical format that everyone uses:

NodeID    ParentNodeID    Caption        Url ========  ==============  =========      ================= {3234...  {3632...        stackoverflow  http://stackov... {3632...  (null)          Questions      ~/questions.aspx {3233...  (null)          Tags           ~/tags.aspx {3235...  {3632...        google         http://www.goo...

And the query to return all the rows would be:

SELECT * FROM Nodes

What is the secret method that Microsoft intended me to use to mash that data into an asp:Menu?

Update: There is a good article on aspalliance.com: Building a Database Driven Hierarchical Menu using ASP.NET 2.0. Unfortunatly it describes how to perform XML data binding; while i’m interested in database binding.

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  1. The menu does not support binding to SqlDataSource because it is a HierarchicalDataBoundControl – only hierarchical datasources are supported. You should implement your own HierarchicalDataSourceControl. Check here for an example. Alternatively you could create a custom sitemap provider and use the SiteMapDataSource as demonstrated here. Finally you can use a 3’rd party control which can bind to SqlDataSource.

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