Hiding a Menu Item on a MasterPage?

[seidel1]

No difference, it still asks for a New...This has to be easier than we are making it

[SeanGrebey]

When you "New" an object, you are creating another instance of it. You don't want to create another menu, you just want a pointer that points back to the original on the Master Page. Hmmm.....looking at it in the editor, it looks like the MenuItem object doesn't have a Visible property. Try just setting the text to an empty string "" and see what happens.


Try this and see what happens:

DirectCast(Master.FindControl("ContentMenu"),Webcontrols.Menu).Items(1).Text = ""

Comment out:

'MasterMenu is the name of the Menu control
Dim MyMasterMenu As Web.UI.Page = Master.FindControl("ContentMenu")

' And then you can access individual menu items
MyMasterMenu.Items(1).Visible = False

[seidel1]

No luck, it looks like its not finding the MasterPage or the control on the master page. The error is "Object Reference not set to an instance of the object"

I agree with your logic, I just can't figure out how to touch the control to make the change.

[Fishcake]

seidel1,

I'm still writing my first asp.net 2.0 app and so don't know if this is the best way to do it but here's what i do and it works.... (Sorry it's in C# but should be easy enough to convert).

Make a property on the master page...

    public int HideItem
    {
        set
        {
            //Remove menu item at specified position
            this.MainMenu.Items.RemoveAt(Value);
        }
    }

Then at top of .aspx page...

<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/base.master" %>

this allows you to access the master page from your derived page.

Then in code-behind for your aspx page...

        //Remove the item at position 1
        this.Master.HideItem = 1;