Design Time Features

Menus design time functionality lets you code less and design more right in the design time.

• Access commonly used properites easily through the SmartTag
  

  
  Design time SmartTag

• Menu Designer dialog lets you create the menu structure visually as well as provides convenient accesss to customize properties of each node.
  

  
  Menus Designer Dialog

• Use the Style Designer Dialog to create custom styles for different states and apply them to different menu items right in the designer.
  

  
  Style Designer dialog

• Select built-in skins through the Autoformat dialog and preview the applied skin.
  

  
  Autoformat Designer dialog

• Bind to XMLDataSources / SitemapDataSources easily during design time.