ASP.NET MVC Menu Selected Item

Question

OK new to MVC. I had asked this question earlier and got an answer but I am wondering if there is a simpler solution.

Say I have a master page with a menu laid out as an

Answer 1

stephen,

here's my contribution to the party. a recursive inline function to populate the

• for as many depths as is required (here's the entire ascx file):

  <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl>" %>
  <%@ Import Namespace="GBC_Art.Controllers" %>
  <%
      Action, int> printNodesRecursively = null;
      printNodesRecursively = (List nodeList, int depth) =>
      {
          if (nodeList == null || nodeList.Count == 0) return;
  %>
      >  
  <%
      foreach (var menuItem in nodeList)
      {
      %>
      
  <%= Html.ActionLink(menuItem.Text, menuItem.Action, menuItem.Controller, null, new { @class = menuItem.Selected ? "selected" : "" })%>
          <%printNodesRecursively(menuItem.SubMenu, depth + 1);%>
      
      <%
          }
  %>
      

<% }; List nodes = Model; printNodesRecursively(nodes, 0); %>

usage -> called as a partialview via the controller as per your example above.

cheers