how do you register multiple site maps in the web.config file?

<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">

<appSettings>

<add key="ConnectionString" value="Password=xxxxxxx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=username;Initial Catalog=DBNAME;Data Source=SERVERNAME" />

</appSettings>

<system.web>

Also, how do I change the code for the menu and treeview controls to use <ul> tags for css friendly layouts rather than <table> tag generated html?

Thank you.

I tried adding the following to the web.config file:

But, I recieved the following error: the provider 'XmlSiteMapProvider' specified for the defaultProvider does not exist in the providers collection.

Hi,

Yeah, it took me several days to figure this out.

In your web.config file this is what you need to add under the <system.web> tag:

<system.web>

<siteMap defaultProvider="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider">

<providers>

<add name="TopXmlSiteMapProvider" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"siteMapFile="TopNavigationBar.sitemap" />

<add name="LeftXmlSiteMapProvider"type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="LeftNavigationBar.sitemap" />

</providers>

</siteMap>

defaultProvider="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider" specifies your default web.sitemap file.

In my case, I added two additional providers:

<add name="TopXmlSiteMapProvider" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"siteMapFile="TopNavigationBar.sitemap" />

&

<add name="LeftXmlSiteMapProvider"type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="LeftNavigationBar.sitemap" />

So, in whenever you add your control you will want to reference the provider used in your web.config file like so:

Dman, thank you very much!

I was right in the mind of struggling with this when I stumbled upon your post.

- Cheers

Hey guys!

I have problem understanding this. From what I see above in this thread the SiteMapProvider set as defaultProvider isn't in the providers collection

So I tryed with this web.config settings:
<siteMap defaultProvider="ASPLoggedIn">
  <providers>
    <add name="LoggedIn" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="LoggedIn.sitemap"/>
    <add name="Anonymous" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="Anonymous.sitemap"/>
  </providers>
</siteMap>

But I get this error when running my web application:
The provider 'ASPLoggedIn' specified for the defaultProvider does not exist in the providers collection

Any suggestions?

Audun

Hi Audun,

Yes, that can be confusing.

change to this:

<siteMap defaultProvider="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider">
  <providers>
    <add name="LoggedIn" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="LoggedIn.sitemap"/>
    <add name="Anonymous" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="Anonymous.sitemap"/>
  </providers>
</siteMap>

this is simply specifying that your default provider is web.sitemap.  You don't have to define that in the provider collection.  New providers you wish to add need to be defined in the collection.

See if that corrects the error.

Thanks, so it need to be "AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider" I thought any word was okay!

It fixed the error, thank you :-)

Audun