SiteMapProvider.FindSiteMapNodeFromKey(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:
System.Web
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Retrieves a SiteMapNode object based on a specified key.

public:
 virtual System::Web::SiteMapNode ^ FindSiteMapNodeFromKey(System::String ^ key);
public virtual System.Web.SiteMapNode FindSiteMapNodeFromKey (string key);
abstract member FindSiteMapNodeFromKey : string -> System.Web.SiteMapNode
override this.FindSiteMapNodeFromKey : string -> System.Web.SiteMapNode
Public Overridable Function FindSiteMapNodeFromKey (key As String) As SiteMapNode

Parameters

key
String

A lookup key with which a SiteMapNode is created.

Returns

SiteMapNode

A SiteMapNode that represents the page identified by key; otherwise, null, if no corresponding SiteMapNode is found or if security trimming is enabled and the SiteMapNode cannot be returned for the current user. The default is null.

Remarks

The SiteMapProvider implementation returns null in all cases. Classes that derive from the SiteMapProvider class can override the FindSiteMapNodeFromKey method to provide lookup functionality based on a unique key (instead of a URL, which is used by the FindSiteMapNode method). Implement the FindSiteMapNodeFromKey method if your site map provider implementation uses the SiteMapNode.Key property of a SiteMapNode object as a primary identifier in a site map structure.

The StaticSiteMapProvider class provides an implementation that handles searching for site map nodes that do not define a URL.

The XmlSiteMapProvider class, which is the default site map provider for ASP.NET, uses the URL of a SiteMapNode as a key in the various collections that the classes maintain. Therefore, if a node provides a URL, it must be unique within the scope of the site map provider. If no URL is provided, a unique identifier is generated to identify the SiteMapNode.

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