Hi,

Yes. You can do that. In order to populate a menu from your site map, simply place a SiteMapDataSource control in your page and set the menu's DataSourceID to the ID of the SiteMapDataSource control. See here for more details:

http://doc.essentialobjects.com/library/1/menucommon/databinding/populate_datasource.aspx

Note that when you use SiteMapDataSource for the menu, you would usually need to set its ShowStartingNode as false.

You can start from the original red tab sample:

http://demo.essentialobjects.com/Default.aspx?path=Menu\_i0\red_tabs

One thing that is particular about this sample is that its second level is horizontal and all horizontal sub menus are aligned to the left edge instead of their parent item (which is the default behavior). The sample used hard coded negative OffsetX values to move the sub menus towards left so that they all aligned to left edge. Such hard coded values may not be practical if the menu is dynamically populated from your site map. In this case you can take a look of this enhanced version:

http://demo.essentialobjects.com/Default.aspx?path=Menu\menu_programming\_i2\red_tabs2

This version uses multiple menus and it does not need hard coded OffsetX value. The solution involves one "top menu" and multiple "child menus". In order to create such menus from your sitemap, you would populate the main menu from your site map first, then use code to dynamically create and populate the child menu based on your main menu. The following post should have all the necessary code for you:

http://www.essentialobjects.com/forum/postst3536_Web-Menu-Submenu-goes-out-of-the-controol.aspx

Hope this helps. Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks!