How to manage the Wizard control appearance in ASP.NET pages
The Wizard control offers a big set of different properties you can use. For small changes, you can set various top-level properties. For example, you can control the colors, fonts, spacing, and border style. You can also modify the appearance of every button and add a header by using the HeaderText property.
More control is …
If your project includes the Wizard control, described in the article: How to use the Wizard control steps in ASP.NET, you should take care about events raised by the control. The next table lists these events:
Event
Description
ActiveStepChanged
This event occurs when the Wizard control switches to a new step.
CancelButtonClick
This event occurs when …
The Wizard control is a more fascinating version of the MultiView control which is described in the article: How to use the MultiView control in ASP.NET pages. The control shows one of several views at a time, but you can customize it by using navigation buttons, a sidebar with step links, styles, and templates. Usually …
You can use the MultiView when you need to declare multiple views in your project and show only one of them at a time. It has no default user interface – you get only whatever HTML and controls you add. You can create a MultiView by adding the <asp:MultiView> tag to your .aspx page file and …
The SiteMapDataSource includes two properties which you can use to start site navigation from the specific node StartingNodeOffset and StartingNodeUrl.
StartingNodeOffset
It takes an integer that instructs the SiteMapDataSource to move that many levels down the tree (if the number is positive) or up the tree (if the number is negative). Note: When the SiteMapDataSource moves …
The article How to skip the root node from the site map in ASP.NET teaches you how you can skip the root node. This article will teach you how you can show just a portion of the complete size map, starting from the current node. For example, you might use a control such as the TreeView …
By default, the site map tree begins with the single root node from the site map. You can decide to skip it in your project, because it introduces a top-level link which might not be very useful. In the example described in the article: How to use the SiteMapPath navigation control in ASP.NET, you may not …
How to customize the SiteMapPath navigation control in ASP.NET
The SiteMapPath control, described in the article: How to use the SiteMapPath navigation control in ASP.NET, is also fully customizable. The next table lists some of its most frequently configured properties:
Property
Description
ShowToolTips
If you don’t want the description text to appear when the user hovers over a part of the …
This article describes the third navigation control you can use in your project. This control is named SiteMapPath. You can find more information about two other controls from the article: How to bind a site map to the TreeView and Menu navigation controls in ASP.NET. The SiteMapPath control provides breadcrumb navigation, which means it shows the user’s current …
How to bind a site map to the TreeView and Menu navigation controls in ASP.NET
If you have a Web.sitemap file you’re ready to use it in a page. Note: How to define a site map in ASP.NET will teach you how to create it. The easiest way to implement your navigation is to use master pages. You can define the navigation controls as a part of a template and …