SiteMapNode.Url Property

 

Gets or sets the URL of the page that the SiteMapNode object represents.

Namespace:   System.Web
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Public Overridable Property Url As String

Property Value

Type: System.String

The URL of the page that the node represents. The default is String.Empty.

Exception Condition
InvalidOperationException

The node is read-only.

The XmlSiteMapProvider class, which is the default site map provider implementation for ASP.NET, uses the SiteMapNode.Url property as a lookup key. Therefore, any SiteMapNode object that is used by the XmlSiteMapProvider class must have a unique URL within the scope of the provider.

Leading and trailing white-space characters are ignored.

The following code example demonstrates how to set the Url property of a SiteMapNode object. The AccessSiteMapProvider stores its root node as a row that has no parentnodeid defined. The row is returned using an OleDbDataReader object, and SiteMapNode properties are set from the values in the data reader.

This code example is part of a larger example provided for the SiteMapProvider class.

' Build an in-memory representation from persistent
' storage, and return the root node of the site map.
Public Overrides Function BuildSiteMap() As SiteMapNode

    ' Since the SiteMap class is static, make sure that it is
    ' not modified while the site map is built.
    SyncLock Me

        ' If there is no initialization, this method is being
        ' called out of order.
        If Not IsInitialized Then
            Throw New Exception("BuildSiteMap called incorrectly.")
        End If

        ' If there is no root node, then there is no site map.
        If aRootNode Is Nothing Then
            ' Start with a clean slate
            Clear()

            ' Select the root node of the site map from Microsoft Access.
            Dim rootNodeId As Integer = -1

            If accessConnection.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
                accessConnection.Open()
            End If
            Dim rootNodeCommand As New OleDbCommand("SELECT nodeid, url, name FROM SiteMap WHERE parentnodeid IS NULL", accessConnection)
            Dim rootNodeReader As OleDbDataReader = rootNodeCommand.ExecuteReader()

            If rootNodeReader.HasRows Then
                rootNodeReader.Read()
                rootNodeId = rootNodeReader.GetInt32(0)
                ' Create a SiteMapNode that references the current StaticSiteMapProvider.
                aRootNode = New SiteMapNode(Me, rootNodeId.ToString(), rootNodeReader.GetString(1), rootNodeReader.GetString(2))
            Else
                Return Nothing
            End If
            rootNodeReader.Close()
            ' Select the child nodes of the root node.
            Dim childNodesCommand As New OleDbCommand("SELECT nodeid, url, name FROM SiteMap WHERE parentnodeid = ?", accessConnection)
            Dim rootParam As New OleDbParameter("parentid", OleDbType.Integer)
            rootParam.Value = rootNodeId
            childNodesCommand.Parameters.Add(rootParam)

            Dim childNodesReader As OleDbDataReader = childNodesCommand.ExecuteReader()

            If childNodesReader.HasRows Then

                Dim childNode As SiteMapNode = Nothing
                While childNodesReader.Read()
                    childNode = New SiteMapNode(Me, _
                    childNodesReader.GetInt32(0).ToString(), _
                    childNodesReader.GetString(1), _
                    childNodesReader.GetString(2))

                    ' Use the SiteMapNode AddNode method to add
                    ' the SiteMapNode to the ChildNodes collection.
                    AddNode(childNode, aRootNode)
                End While
            End If

            childNodesReader.Close()
            accessConnection.Close()
        End If
        Return aRootNode
    End SyncLock

End Function 'BuildSiteMap

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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