Programmer in training stuck on placeholder adding control. Please help

David Rockafellow

I am useing the code below for a menu but where the item1, item2.. is I would like to have a linkbutton apear when displayed in the bullets. Any code I place in quotes will show the code on the page and not my intended resoults. Please point me in the right direction.

String[] mainmenuitems = { "item1",
                                       "item2",
                                       "item3"};
BulletedList MenuBulletedList1 = new BulletedList();
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(mainmenuitems[0]);
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(mainmenuitems[1]);
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(mainmenuitems[2]);
ContentUpperLeftBlock.Controls.Add(MenuBulletedList1);
ContentUpperLeftSmallTextLabel.Text = "Main menu";

Thanks for any help in advance,

David

6 Replies

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Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
Accepted answer
string mText = string.Empty;
string mValue = string.Empty;

for (int i = 0; i < mainmenuitems.GetLength(0); i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < mainmenuitems.GetLength(1); j++)
{
mText = mainmenuitems[i, j];
mValue = mainmenuitems[i, ++j];
}

ls1 = new ListItem(mText,mValue);
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(ls1);
}
David Rockafellow15y ago
I was just about to update the post and saw yours. I found the answer at http://asp-net-example.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-populate-bulletedlist-from-two.html and its exactly as you described. Thank you.
David Rockafellow15y ago
That was a huge help Javeed. Thank you. I do have one last nubie question. This solution gives me 4 bullets with XX as the hyperlink. What do I need to do, to make it 2 bullets with associated hyperlink?

string[,] mainmenuitems = new string[2, 2] { { "link1", "http://me.com" }, { "link2", "http://me.com" } };

BulletedList MenuBulletedList1 = new BulletedList();
MenuBulletedList1.DisplayMode = BulletedListDisplayMode.HyperLink;
ListItem ls1 = null;
foreach (string item in mainmenuitems)
{
ls1 = new ListItem(item,"XX");
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(ls1);
}
ContentUpperLeftBlock.Controls.Add(MenuBulletedList1);
MenuBulletedList1.Visible = true;
ContentUpperLeftSmallTextLabel.Text = "Main menu";
Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
create a 2 dimension array to store the text and value and pass the same, like this (i have hardcoded the hyperlink for now):

BulletedList MenuBulletedList1 = new BulletedList();
MenuBulletedList1.DisplayMode = BulletedListDisplayMode.HyperLink;

ListItem ls1 = null;
foreach (string item in mainmenuitems)
{
ls1 = new ListItem(item,"http://www.microsoft.com/");
MenuBulletedList1.Items.Add(ls1);
}

PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(MenuBulletedList1);
David Rockafellow15y ago
Javeed,

Thank you for the responce. I do have DisplayMode set, where I seem to be stuck on is how to pass the Value="link" and the caption in from behind the scenes. I'm passing in the caption fine but not the value for the link. Did that make more sense?

Thanks again,

David
Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
Hi David,

try to create a ListItem and than add the same to the bulleted List, like this (the attribute in bold is important to display the items as hyperlink, you can add this attribute in your code and check the output):
DisplayMode="HyperLink"
ID="BulletedList1"
runat="server">
Value="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft
Value="http://www.c-sharpcorner.net/">CsharpCorner

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