[Solved] Error CS1026 When using Menu with MvcSiteMapProvider

[Sid]

Good Morning,

I'm using the MvcSiteMapProvider in my application and am seeing Error CS1026 when viewing in browser.  Here's the code I've written thus far:

View (MenuPartial):

@using Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI;
@using MvcSiteMapProvider;

@(Html.Telerik().Menu()
    .Name("Menu")
        .BindTo(Html.MvcSiteMap().Provider.RootNode.ChildNodes,
            mappings => mappings.For<MvcSiteMapNode>(binding => binding
                .ItemDataBound((item, node) =>
                {
                    item.Text = node.Title;
                    item.ActionName = node.Action;
                    item.ControllerName = node.Controller;
                })
                    .Children(node => node.ChildNodes)))
        .Render();

)

Menu Controller:

using System.Web.Mvc;
using Telerik.Web.Mvc;

namespace Veehco.Controllers
{
    public partial class MenuController : Controller
    {
        [PopulateSiteMap(SiteMapName = "Veehco", ViewDataKey = "Veehco")]

        public ActionResult SiteMapBinding()
        {
            if (!SiteMapManager.SiteMaps.ContainsKey("Veehco"))
            {
                SiteMapManager.SiteMaps.Register<XmlSiteMap>("Veehco", sitemap => sitemap.LoadFrom("~/Veehco.sitemap"));
            }
            return View();
        }
    }
}

Global.asax:

protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
            SiteMapManager.SiteMaps.Register<XmlSiteMap>("Veehco.sitemap", sitemap => sitemap.Load());
        }

Can anyone identify the source of the compliation error?  Note that the error message states ") expected".  However, intellisense didn't pickup any errors and the solution built successfully. 

Thanks much for your help and guidance.
Sid

[Thijs]

Hi, i hope i know what you need to change in order to solve the issue you are having. Change the menu code in your view by the following.

@{Html.Telerik().Menu()

    .Name("Menu")

        .BindTo(Html.MvcSiteMap().Provider.RootNode.ChildNodes,

            mappings => mappings.For<MvcSiteMapNode>(binding => binding

                .ItemDataBound((item, node) =>

                {

                    item.Text = node.Title;

                    item.ActionName = node.Action;

                    item.ControllerName = node.Controller;

                })

                    .Children(node => node.ChildNodes)))

        .Render();

  

}

[Sid]

Thijs,

Thanks for your help.  As an old VB guy, I often confuse parenthesis () for curly brackets {} which was the root cause of my issue.  The compilation error is resolved.  However, I only see two nodes of my sitemap now.  Here's the full mvc.sitemap:

<?xml version="1.0" encoiding="utf-8" ?>
<mvcSiteMap xmlns="Http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com/schemas/MvcSiteMap-File-3.0" enableLocalization="true">
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Home" controller="Home" action="Index">
<mvcSiteMapNode title="About" controller="Home" action="About">
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Contact" controller="Home" action="Contact"/>
</mvcSiteMapNode>
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Borrower" controller="Borrower" action="Index">
<mvcSiteMapNode title= "Sign Up" controller="Borrower" action="Create"/>
</mvcSiteMapNode>
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Investor" controller="Investor" action="Index">
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Sign Up" controller="Investor" action="Create"/>
</mvcSiteMapNode>
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Dealer" controller="Dealer" action="Index">
<mvcSiteMapNode title="Sign Up" controller="Dealer" action="Create"/>
</mvcSiteMapNode>
</mvcSiteMap>

What do I need to do to the sitemap or the Menu to expose the other nodes?

Thanks,
Sid

[Thijs]

Sid,

Your welcome, glad you could finally see a part of your sitemap.
Could you please tell me which nodes you see of your sitemap?

Anyways i copied your pasted code in to a web.sitemap i had and it gave a couple of errors. i corrected them:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<mvcSiteMap xmlns="Http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com/schemas/MvcSiteMap-File-3.0" enableLocalization="true">
  <mvcSiteMapNode title="Home" controller="Home" action="Index">
    <mvcSiteMapNode title="About" controller="Home" action="About">
      <mvcSiteMapNode title="Contact" controller="Home" action="Contact"/>
    </mvcSiteMapNode>
    <mvcSiteMapNode title="Borrower" controller="Borrower" action="Index">
      <mvcSiteMapNode title= "Sign Up" controller="Borrower" action="Create"/>
    </mvcSiteMapNode>
    <mvcSiteMapNode title="Investor" controller="Investor" action="Index">
      <mvcSiteMapNode title="Sign Up" controller="Investor" action="Create"/>
    </mvcSiteMapNode>
    <mvcSiteMapNode title="Dealer" controller="Dealer" action="Index">
      <mvcSiteMapNode title="Sign Up" controller="Dealer" action="Create"/>
    </mvcSiteMapNode>
  </mvcSiteMapNode>
</mvcSiteMap>

Thijs