Does anyone know of, or have a tool or way, to easlier create and maintain application menus. Perhaps something like a generic application menu framework?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm beginning the development of a large enterprise type application that'll have a number of different types of menus to create and maintain (application level, form level, context level, etc.). Many of these menus will have to be dynamic (i.e. adding/removing items, disabling/enabling items, etc.). The on-going maintenance of all this in the .Net IDE seems like it might get overwhelming in the future.
What I was thinking about as a possible solution is a sort of data-driven menu system, where I can store all the menu stuff (menus, items, code, attributes, etc.) in a SQL Server table, then at run time create the necessary application menus. This would also enable menus to be modified without having to recompile or redeploy.
Any suggestions, advice, comments, or criticisms are greatly appreciated!
Thanks much!
The reason I'm asking is because I'm beginning the development of a large enterprise type application that'll have a number of different types of menus to create and maintain (application level, form level, context level, etc.). Many of these menus will have to be dynamic (i.e. adding/removing items, disabling/enabling items, etc.). The on-going maintenance of all this in the .Net IDE seems like it might get overwhelming in the future.
What I was thinking about as a possible solution is a sort of data-driven menu system, where I can store all the menu stuff (menus, items, code, attributes, etc.) in a SQL Server table, then at run time create the necessary application menus. This would also enable menus to be modified without having to recompile or redeploy.
Any suggestions, advice, comments, or criticisms are greatly appreciated!
Thanks much!
