Adding Child items to DevExpress XtraNavBar

Question

I am using the XtraNavBar from DevExpress and I would like to figure out how to add a child item to an existing item.

I have added Groups and Items to those Groups but I have been unable to figure out how to add child items to the Items.

Has anyone else done this? Can it be done either through code or any other way?

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Edit

I found ONE way to do this, HERE, but I was hoping there was another way, I guess. Building a separate control (TreeView I'd guess) and embedding it was not the answer I was HOPING for.....

Answer 1

See the XtraNavBar as a list of views where a NavBarGroup represents a view. That's why you cannot add child to a group.

In one of our applications, we are using this control. Each NavBarGroup has a container which contains a more sophisticated control.

Here a simple example how we do it:

//Create the group control container
NavBarGroupControlContainer groupContainer = new NavBarGroupControlContainer();
NavBarGroup group = new NavBarGroup("GroupName");
group.SmallImage  = new Icon("YourIcon.ico");
group.GroupStyle  = NavBarGroupStyle.ControlContainer;

m_navBar.Controls.Add(groupContainer);
group.ControlContainer = groupContainer;
group.Visible = true;

customControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
groupContainer.Controls.Add(customControl);