The level of nesting in the menu hierarchy can easily be controlled using the LevelOfNesting property. For example when set to 2, the menu is populated no further than the second level.

LevelOfNesting = "2"	LevelOfNesting = "3"

You can easily specify whether postings should be included (or excluded) from a menu using the combination of IncludePostings and HiddenPostings properties. When the IncludePostings property is set to true all postings specified by the StartChannel will be shown as menu items. You can then hide some of the postings by specifying them in the HiddenPostings property.

IncludePostings = "true" HiddenPosting = "default"	IncludePostings = "true" HiddenPosting = "Stock Funds, Bond Funds"

In order to populate a menu from the Resource Gallery you need to set the StartCannel property. When StartChannel is set to "Channels", all folders in the channels are shown as menu items, otherwise only the specified folders are shown.

StartChart ="/Channels/"	StartChart ="/Channels/FinancialSite"

RadMenu v3.0 delivers the convenience of desktop applications to the web with full support for:
 - Shortcuts
 - Access Keys
 - Arrow-key Navigation 

RadMenu groups now open in the opposite direction, if the window boundaries are to be crossed.

The content of each MenuItem is now defined through Content Templates. They can accommodate both HTML elements and ASP.NET WebControls. A Template can be populated both in Visual Studio® .NET design mode and manually with the code. Databinding inside templates is also supported.

A new functionality of RadMenu v3.0 allows you to pin down a menu so that it does not scroll with the content of the browser window, but rather retains its absolute position.

RadMenu v3.0 introduces a comprehensive client-side API, which enables you to manage the menu structure on-the-fly and control virtually all properties defined in the server-side RadMenu and MenuItem classes.

RadMenu v3.0 employs a new JavasScripts-based mechanism to preload and cache all required images, so that they can be used instantly on request. The the preloading script is extracted in an external file, which is in turn also cached automatically by the browser.  

The flexibility of RadMenu gives you full control of the appearance of your menus - choose from virtually all existing styles of menus - vertical, horizontal, mixed and set the direction of menu groups to fit the feel of your designs and the flow of information.

RadMenu generates code, which can be fully crawled and indexed by search-engines. Moreover, the menu will render a hierarchical list of hyperlinks, which can be used for navigation even when JavaScript is disabled or not present.

Harness the full potential of RadMenu - use it everywhere in your solutions where a pop-up menu would help users access information more conveniently. Go beyond the conventional navigation - use it for context help within your system, or set dynamic links in the body text of your pages.

A common limitation of many menu components is their inability to work over Flash, ActiveX, windowed objects (select boxes), and other 3-rd party components. This imposes great limitation in terms of site design and page content. In RadMenu all those problems are eliminated. (Supported on Internet Explorer 5.5+ only!)

The visual appearance of RadMenu can be easily customized using CSS and images. The product is shipped with a number of ready to use "skins" including WIndows XP, Office XP and Office 2003.

Thanks to the new "AutoPostBack" attribute developers may set all items of the menu to PostBack regardless of other settings.

Challenged by a navigational task? RadMenu allows the use of multiple menus on one page, reusing a single code library for faster development and speed on the client.

RadMenu now provides complete XHTML 1.1 compliance. There is however 2 exceptions (Width and Height attributes), which are intended to solve Internet Explorer compatibility issues.

RadMenu satisfies the requirements of "Section 508" for software accessibility. The component is also "Level AAA" content compliant (in accordance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0).

Telerik RadMenu now implements a highly efficient semantic rendering, which uses list items and CSS instead of tables. As a result the HTML output is reduced by up to 70%, which dramatically improves performance.

RadControls suite is now shipped with a consistent set of skins that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows XP, Office, Visual Studio, etc. The skin of every control can be easily switched using a single property.

The RadMenu hierarchy structure has been significantly simplified so that each menu item can now have its own collection of child items. This eliminates the need of forming menu groups so the MenuGroup class has been removed.

The design-time functionality of RadMenu has been significantly enhanced to include:

• Applying skins in design time
• New Builder dialog
• Easily switch between RadMenu skins - the AutoFormat command in RadMenu Smart tag automatically detects the preset skins
• Design-time support for declarative data sources
• Hierarchical binding to flat data sources

As of our Q2 2006 release all resources (scripts, skins, etc) are implemented as Embedded Web Resources in ASP.NET 2.0 for a very easy and convenient deployment. The only thing you now need to do is drag RadMenu from your toolbox onto your web page (no external files will be required). The "/RadControls" folder will only be needed if you plan to use a skin other then he default or if you make any modifications to the script files.

The client-side API is now extended and closely matches the server-side API.

AccessDataSource, SqlDataSource, and ObjectDataSource are now supported.