Exception using sitemap class

[dirk]

I am writing a custom control (code see below) and I am getting an
exception that drives me crazy.

When I drag my control on a form, Visual Studio shows immediately the
following exception:

"Error Rendering Control - NiftyMenu1 An unhandled exception has
occurred. The provider 'AspNetXmlSiteM apProvider' specified for the
defaultProvider does not exist in the providers collection."

What does that mean exactly? For debugging purpoes I list my providers
with the following code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">

<SCRIPT runat="server"& gt;
private void Page_Load(objec t sender, System.EventArg s e)
{

IEnumerator providers = SiteMap.Provide rs.GetEnumerato r();
while (providers.Move Next())
{
Response.Write( providers.Curre nt);
}
}

I am getting the output: System.Web.XmlS iteMapProvider

So I think it should find it. Or is it System.Web.XmlS iteMapProvider
different to AspNetXmlSiteMa pProvider?

What am I missing? Must be something obvious but I can't see it.

Any help is very much appreciated.



Here is the code of my control:

1 using System;
2 using System.Collecti ons.Generic;
3 using System.Componen tModel;
4 using System.Text;
5 using System.Web;
6 using System.Web.UI;
7 using System.Web.UI.W ebControls;
8
9 namespace MyControls
10 {
11 [ToolboxData("&l t;{0}:NiftyMenu
runat=server></{0}:NiftyMenu>" )]
12 public class NiftyMenu : WebControl
13 {
14 protected override void RenderContents( HtmlTextWriter
output)
15 {
16 RenderMasterMen u(output);
17 }
18
19 protected virtual void RenderMasterMen u(HtmlTextWrite r
output)
20 {
21 output.Write("& lt;ul id=\"nav\"&gt;" );
22 // The following line produces the exception
23 SiteMapNode node = SiteMap.Current Node;
24 }
25 }
26 }

The offending line is #23. If I comment that out the exception is
gone. But I need the SiteMap class!