Creating a menu from the server side

Question

I am creating my menu with javascript. How possible it is that on page load it is created from the server side (VB ASP.NET) rather than the client side? And if this is possible how is this done? My main aim is that I can create menu items from a database.

Feel free to give your opinion.

Answer 1

You may want to look at micro-templating, where you create a template that uses json as it's data source. This way you can control the menu items with a database query, xml, whatever. The template is a nice feature as you will not have to rebuild and re-deploy should you want to change the look and feel. There are several asp.net examples:

Dave Ward's Encosia's blog

Rick Strahl's blog

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