Adding the ASP.NET 2.0 radMenu Control to MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites
With the release of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Microsoft has implemented significant architectural changes to the SharePoint platform which simplifies the task of customizing the user interface. Most of these improvements are because WSS v3, unlike its predecessor, is built on top of the .NET 3.0 Framework bringing the native capabilities of ASP.NET 2.0 directly to the SharePoint platform. One such ASP.NET 2.0 concept that is leveraged by WSS v3 is the navigation provider model. The navigation provider model separates the navigation hierarchy (the data portion, otherwise known as site-map data sources) from the rendering (the presentation portion, otherwise known as navigation controls). The role of the site-map data source is to abstract the navigation hierarchy from the underlying system (such as SharePoint) to make it transparent to the navigation control. This allows developers to easily snap ASP.NET 2.0 navigation provider model compatible controls into a SharePoint site by simply configuring them to receive the navigation hierarchy from the provided SharePoint site-map data sources.
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