[Solved] Support for Areas in XmlWebsiteMap

[Niels Schneider]

Hi,

Is there support in the extensions (Sitemap) for ASP.Net MVC 2 Areas. If so a code example would be appreciated. Using a route in a XmlSiteMapNode results in a null ref exception.

I'm using VS2010 RC2.

Kind regards,

Niels

[Kazi Manzur Rashid]

Hi Niels Schneider,

Area support will be added in the next drop. You will define the xml site map with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap>
    <siteMapNode title="Home">
        <siteMapNode title="Main" controller="Home" action="Index">
            <routeValues>
                <area/>
           </routeValues>
       </siteMapNode>
      <siteMapNode title="Area" controller="AreaHome" action="Index">
           <routeValues>
              <area>MyArea</area>
          </routeValues>
      </siteMapNode>
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Sincerely yours,
Kazi Manzur Rashid
the Telerik team

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[Niels Schneider]

Hello Kazi,

Thank you for your answer. Your solution works already in the 2010 Futures release.

The implementation isn't making the the sitemap more readable however. it would be nicer to have an additional attribute in the siteMapNode which is added to the routeValues by to framework. Like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap>
    <siteMapNode title="Home">
          <siteMapNode title="Main" controller="Home" action="Index" area=""/>
          <siteMapNode title="Area" controller="AreaHome" action="Index" area="MyArea"/>
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>


Kind Regards,

Niels

ps. I'm missing your blog entries for a while. Are you gona write something soon? 

[Kazi Manzur Rashid]

Hello Niels Schneider,

Okay Area has been promoted to node level as per your suggestion.

re: You will see something interesting soon in my blog.

Best wishes,
Kazi Manzur Rashid
the Telerik team

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[Niels Schneider]

Kazi,

Nice. Thank you.

Keep an eye on your blog.

Kind Regards,

Niels