Developing a Database Driven Accordion Menu Using WCF and jQuery

Web sites often use menus to display available options to the end user. The data required by these menus, such as menu text and URL, is frequently stored in XML files. Though this arrangement works great for small number of menu items, in certain applications it is required that you display menu options based on the security credentials of the current user. At times you may also need to display menus in Unicode character set. In such cases storing menu data in a database table can be more beneficial than maintaining separate XML files. In this article you will develop an Accordion menu that fetches data such as menu text, menu items and URL from a database table. An Accordion menu essentially displays menu options in collapsible panels. At a time only one menu and its options are expanded while other menus are collapsed. In order to develop our Accordion menu we will make use of ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and jQuery.

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