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siteMap Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

  • Articolo

Defines configuration settings to support the navigation infrastructure for configuring, storing, and rendering site navigation.

This element is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<siteMap
  defaultProvider="provider name">
  <providers>...</providers> 
</siteMap>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute Description

defaultProvider

Required attribute.

Specifies the name of the provider.

The default is the XmlSiteMapProvider provider.

Child Elements

Element Description

providers

Defines a collection of navigation providers.

Parent Elements

Element Description

configuration

Specifies the required root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.

system.web

Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration section.

Remarks

Default Configuration

The following default siteMap element is configured in the root Web.config file in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<siteMap>
     <providers>
           <add siteMapFile="web.sitemap" name="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider"
                type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
                PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
     </providers>
</siteMap>

Example

The following code example shows how to add a site map provider in the Web.config file to override the default site map provider that is defined for ASP.NET.

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapReader">
      <providers>
        <add 
          name=" XmlSiteMapReader"
          type="XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=1.1.3300.0,
                Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
          siteMapFile="my.sitemap" 
          description="XmlSiteMapProvider that loads my.sitemap"/>
      </providers>
    </siteMap>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

Element Information

Configuration section handler

System.Web.Configuration.SiteMapSection

Configuration member

System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebSectionGroup.SiteMap

Configurable locations

Machine.config

Root-level Web.config

Application-level Web.config

Requirements

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0, 5.1, or 6.0

The .NET Framework version 2.0

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

See Also

Tasks

How to: Lock ASP.NET Configuration Settings

Reference

system.web Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
<configuration> Element
providers Element for siteMap (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
System.Configuration
System.Web.Configuration

Concepts

ASP.NET Configuration Overview
ASP.NET Web Server Controls and Browser Capabilities
Securing ASP.NET Configuration
ASP.NET Configuration Scenarios

Other Resources

ASP.NET Configuration Files
ASP.NET Configuration Settings
General Configuration Settings (ASP.NET)
ASP.NET Configuration API