Programming Articles

Bootstrap makes it easy to create a nice looking menu system (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Instead of coding all your menus within your shared layout file, make your menus dynamic by storing them in an XML file or a database table. In this article, you create a simple one-line menu system using two C# classes and a little bit of Razor code in an MVC page. The sample in this article shows you how to build a hierarchical menu structure to be used with drop-down menus. You'll also see how to store and retrieve the menus from an XML file using LINQ to XML and a little bit of recursion.