Need an iPod-like Menu for ASP.NET Pages

Friday, May 30, 2008

Do any of the ASP.NET component vendors have a treeview or menu control that emulates the look and feel of the iPod menu? Has anyone out there built one?

I have a client who would like to save space by letting users drill down deep to their data without the need for an ever-widening treeview.

The picture below (linked to Apple's site) shows the idea... except that each screen replaces the one before - there's no cascading.

7 Comments

i dunno about controls, but if i was starting from scratch i reckon tables would be my friend in this scenario :)

Guy Harwood - Friday, May 30, 2008 12:33:05 PM

I don't know about any control but that should be extremely easy to do with an update panel and a table. Just update draw the items in the table on runtime as you need them depending on a parameter (like parent=xxx or path=xx,yy,zz)

Jorge - Friday, May 30, 2008 2:03:21 PM

You should be able to do this using the asp.net menu control. It might take a bit of manipulation, but I think it can be done.

Andrew - Friday, May 30, 2008 3:39:51 PM

Erik:

Bingo! You found one!

Thanks,

Ken

Ken Cox [MVP] - Friday, May 30, 2008 5:19:34 PM

Guy, Jorge, and Andrew:

Every project *should* be easy. It's not til the control is done and debugged that we know how easy it was.

Ken

Ken Cox [MVP] - Friday, May 30, 2008 5:22:13 PM

mename:

Thanks very much for the jQuery link. That's a very slick implementation!

Ken

Ken Cox [MVP] - Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:07:37 AM

You seriously need to turn it into a Zune version also.

mikedopp - Monday, June 2, 2008 12:08:51 PM

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