MVC Area Navigation

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MVC Navigation is a simple service that allows you to easily aggregate navigation items across your asp.net mvc areas.

Step One: Create a navigation node

In your area registration, add any routes you need managed.

var menu = new NavigationItem
        {
            Meta = new MvcNavigationMeta
            {
                Text = "Root",
                Roles = new[] { "RootPermission" }
            },
            ItemIdentifier = "root-item",
            Children = new List<NavigationItem>
            {
                {
                    new NavigationItem
                    {
                        Meta = new MvcNavigationMeta
                        {
                            PreferredOrder = 100,
                            Text = "Sub-Item1",
                            Roles = new[] { "Secondary" }
                        },
                        ItemIdentifier = "sub-item1",
                        Children = new List<NavigationItem>
                        {
                            {
                                    new NavigationItem
                                    {
                                        Meta = new MvcNavigationMeta
                                        {
                                            Text = "Sub-Sub-Item1",
                                            Roles = new[] { "All" }
                                        },
                                        ItemIdentifier = "sub-sub-item1"
                                    }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    new NavigationItem
                    {
                        Meta = new MvcNavigationMeta
                        {
                            PreferredOrder = 10,
                            Text = "Sub-Item0",
                            Roles = new[] { "All" }
                        },
                        ItemIdentifier = Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
                    }
                }
            }
        };

Step Two: Add the node to the navigation map

There is a default implementation as well as an IAuthorizationService that uses the built in role provider.

var service = {Your IOC}.GetService<INavigationService>();
service.AddNavigationNode(menu);

Step Three: Get the navigation items for any user

var identity = this.User.Identity || new GenericIdentity("username");
var userNav = service.GetNavigationForUser(identity);

Step Four: Create partial view or html helper to generate your html if necessary