Display SiteMap Links On ASP.NET Page

Code snippet that load a sitemap data and its links and displays them on a Web page in ASP.NET.

Create a sitemap sml based file and save it with sitemap.config name. Here is an example.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap>
<siteMapNode title="Home" controller="Home" action="Overview">
<siteMapNode title="Dashboard" nopResource="Admin.Dashboard" controller="Home" action="Index" ImageUrl="~/Administration/Content/images/ico-dashboard.png" />
<siteMapNode title="Catalog" nopResource="Admin.Catalog" PermissionNames="ManageCatalog" ImageUrl="~/Administration/Content/images/ico-catalog.png" >
<siteMapNode title="Categories" nopResource="Admin.Catalog.Categories">
<siteMapNode title="List" nopResource="Admin.Common.List" controller="Category" action="List"/>
<siteMapNode title="Tree view" nopResource="Admin.Common.Treeview" controller="Category" action="Tree"/>
</siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

If you're new to sitemap, learn here how to create a site map in Visual Studio.

 

To bind above sitemap and display on a page, please follow the below code example. 

@using System.Data;
@using System;
<div class="page-title">
<h2>"Sitemap"</h2>
</div>
@{
string fileName = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/sitemap.config");
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(fileName);
<table>
<tr>
<td width="20%"></td>
<td style="border: 2px double #CCCCCC; padding-left: 50px;" width="30%">
@for(int i=1;i<ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count/2;i++)
{
if(ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["action"].ToString()=="")
{
<h4>@ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["title"].ToString()</h4>
}
else
{
string url = "../" + @ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["controller"].ToString() + "/" + @ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["action"].ToString();
<ul class="top-menu"><li><a href="@url" temp_href="@url">@ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["title"].ToString()</a></li></ul>
}
}
</td>
<td style="border: 2px double #CCCCCC; padding-left: 50px;" width="30%">
@for (int i = ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count / 2; i < ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count; i++)
{
if(ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["action"].ToString()=="")
{
<h4>@ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["title"].ToString()</h4>
}
else
{
string url = "../" + @ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["controller"].ToString() + "/" + @ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["action"].ToString();
<ul class="top-menu"><li><a href="@url" temp_href="@url">@ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["title"].ToString()</a></li></ul>
}
}
</td>
</tr>
</table>
}

Run application and you'll see a page with sitemap links.