/// <summary>
/// Helper methods to return available sub-menu links for this controller from XML.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controllerName">Name of controller</param>
/// <returns>LeftNavigationModel</returns>
public static SubMenuNavigationModel Load(string controllerName)
{
SubMenuNavigationModel leftNavigation = new SubMenuNavigationModel();
// Load the navigation XML document.
XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(@"~/Content/navigation.xml"));
// Select all links for our navigation node (top-level menu item).
var links = from node in xDoc.Descendants("node")
where (string)node.Attribute("title") == controllerName
select node.Elements("link");
if (links.Count() > 0)
{
// Create a link for each item.
foreach (var link in links.First())
{
leftNavigation.Links.Add((string)link.Attribute("title"), (string)link.Attribute("href"));
}
}
return leftNavigation;
}
/// <summary>
/// Helper methods to return available sub-menu links for this controller from a hard-coded list. Assume loading from a database, xml file, or other source, rather than hard-coded, etc.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controllerName">Name of controller</param>
/// <returns>LeftNavigationModel</returns>
public static SubMenuNavigationModel Load2(string controllerName)
{
SubMenuNavigationModel leftNavigation = new SubMenuNavigationModel();
switch (controllerName)
{
case "Home":
{
leftNavigation.Links.Add("Link 1", "/Home/Link1");
leftNavigation.Links.Add("Link 2", "/Home/Link2");
}
break;
case "About":
{
leftNavigation.Links.Add("Link 1", "/About/Link1");
leftNavigation.Links.Add("Link 2", "/About/Link2");
leftNavigation.Links.Add("Link 3", "/About/Link3");
}
break;
};
return leftNavigation;
}
