skmMenu: An ASP.NET Menu Control

Menu Methods

The methods of the Menu class are listed below. For a complete list of Menu class members, see the Menu Members topic.

Public Instance Methods

ApplyStyle (inherited from WebControl) Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, overwriting any existing style elements of the control. This method is primarily used by control developers.
CopyBaseAttributes (inherited from WebControl)Copies the properties not encapsulated by the Style object from the specified Web server control to the Web server control that this method is called from. This method is used primarily by control developers.
DataBind (inherited from Control) Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child controls.
Dispose (inherited from Control) Enables a server control to perform final clean up before it is released from memory.
Equals (inherited from Object)Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
FindControl (inherited from Control)Overloaded. Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id parameter.
GetHashCode (inherited from Object)Serves as a hash function for a particular type, suitable for use in hashing algorithms and data structures like a hash table.
GetType (inherited from Object)Gets the Type of the current instance.
HasControls (inherited from Control)Determines if the server control contains any child controls.
MergeStyle (inherited from WebControl) Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, but will not overwrite any existing style elements of the control. This method is used primarily by control developers.
RenderBeginTag (inherited from WebControl) Renders the HTML opening tag of the control into the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.
RenderControl (inherited from Control)Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object and stores tracing information about the control if tracing is enabled.
RenderEndTag (inherited from WebControl)Renders the HTML closing tag of the control into the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.
ResolveUrl (inherited from Control)Converts a URL into one that is usable on the requesting client.
SetRenderMethodDelegate (inherited from Control)
ToString (inherited from Object)Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Protected Instance Methods

AddAttributesToRender (inherited from WebControl) Adds HTML attributes and styles that need to be rendered to the specified HtmlTextWriter. This method is used primarily by control developers.
AddMenu AddMenu is called recusively, doing a depth-first traversal of the menu hierarchy and building up the HTML elements from the object model.
AddParsedSubObject (inherited from Control)Notifies the server control that an element, either XML or HTML, was parsed, and adds the element to the server control's ControlCollection object.
BuildImagePreload Determines what images are used by a specified MenuItem instance.
BuildMenu BuildMenu builds the top-level menu. It is called from the OnDataBinding method as well as from CreateChildControls. It has code to check if the top-level menu should be laid out horizontally or vertically.
BuildMenuID Creates a MenuID for a MenuItem.
BuildMenuItem This method creates a single MenuItem and is called repeatedly from GatherMenuItems.
BuildMenuSpacer Creates a MenuItem spacer.
BuildProfileTree (inherited from Control)
ClearChildViewState (inherited from Control) Deletes the view-state information for all the server control's child controls.
CreateChildControls This method is called from base.Render(), and starts the build menu process.
CreateControlCollection (inherited from Control)Creates a new ControlCollection object to hold the child controls (both literal and server) of the server control.
CreateControlStyle (inherited from WebControl) Creates the style object that is used internally by the WebControl class to implement all style related properties. This method is used primarily by control developers.
EnsureChildControls (inherited from Control) Determines whether the server control contains child controls. If it does not, it creates child controls.
Finalize (inherited from Object)Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
FindControl (inherited from Control)Overloaded.
GatherMenuItems This method is used from the OnDataBinding method; it traverses the XML document, building up the object model.
GenerateShimCall For Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, IFRAMEs are used. This method returns the client-side JavaScript to show/hide the IFRAME.
InstantiateStyleInfoJavascript Returns the javascript that instantiates a style info object that corresponds to the style specified.
IsLiteralContent (inherited from Control) Determines if the server control holds only literal content.
LoadViewState Loads the state from the passed in saveState object. This method runs during the page life-cycle, and is required for the menu to work across postbacks.
MapPathSecure (inherited from Control)Retrieves the physical path that a virtual path, either absolute or relative, maps to.
MemberwiseClone (inherited from Object)Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
OnBubbleEvent (inherited from Control) Determines whether the event for the server control is passed up the page's UI server control hierarchy.
OnDataBinding Event handler for the DataBinding event.
OnInit (inherited from Control)Raises the Init event.
OnLoad (inherited from Control)Raises the Load event.
OnMenuItemClick Raises the MenuItemClick event. This allows you to provide a custom handler for the event.
OnPreRender Generates the client-side JavaScript.
OnUnload (inherited from Control)Raises the Unload event.
Note    Server controls should perform any final cleanup, such as closing files, closing database connections, and discarding objects, during this stage of the server control lifecycle.
RaiseBubbleEvent (inherited from Control) Assigns any sources of the event and its information to the control's parent.
RegisterClientScriptBlock Registers the main client script.
RegisterClientStartupScript Registers the startup client script.
RegisterPreloadCommand Registers the Preload command to preload any images.
RegisterSubmenuArray Registers the SubMenus for the menu with a JavaScript array.
Render The Render method is responsible for generating the HTML markup.
RenderChildren (inherited from Control)Outputs the content of a server control's children to a provided HtmlTextWriter object, which writes the content to be rendered on the client.
RenderContents (inherited from WebControl)Renders the contents of the control into the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.
SaveViewState SaveViewState saves the state of the menu into an object (specifically, an object array with five indices). This is required to have the state persisted across postbacks.
TrackViewState TrackViewState informs all of the menus complex properties that they, too, need to track their viewstate changes.
UserHasPermission Determines if a user belongs to a role for a particular MenuItem.

Protected Internal Instance Methods

AddedControl (inherited from Control) Called after a control is added to the Controls collection of another control.
RemovedControl (inherited from Control) Called after a control is removed from the Controls collection of another control.

Explicit Interface Implementations

IAttributeAccessor.GetAttribute (inherited from WebControl)
IAttributeAccessor.SetAttribute (inherited from WebControl)
IParserAccessor.AddParsedSubObject (inherited from Control)
IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent

See Also

Menu Class | skmMenu Namespace