Customizing quick launch navigation with a QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control

In this recipe, we will register the custom site map provider, which we created in the previous recipe, Customizing header navigation with a TopNavigationDataSource delegate control, with the QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control. Since we have already created our custom site map provider and registered it in the web.config modifications, we will simply configure the QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control to use this site map provider. The QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control provides the data for the navigation illustrated in the following screenshot:

Customizing quick launch navigation with a QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control

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