Hi guys,

I have a small problem. I'm working on a few NuGet packages, and I need them all to appear under the same section. But I haven't been entirely successful with getting the menu to display my plugins properly. They tend to duplicate the section menu instead. So if I have 3 of my plugins installed, I'd end up with 3 duplicates of my custom section.

I'm using the MenuProvider to generate the menu items for my plugins. I first check whether the section already exists using MenuAssembler's GetMenuItems and add it using SectionMenuItem if it doesn't. However, during my debugging sessions, GetMenuItems returns 0 for all plugins. So the question is, why is it returning 0? Shouldn't the second time GetMenuItems is run return 1 as the section was added by the first plugin?

Have a look at a portion of my code below and please let me know what I did wrong.

public IEnumerable<MenuItem> GetMenuItems()
        {
            var menuItems = new List<MenuItem> {};
 
            IEnumerable<MenuItem> sectionMenuItems = new MenuAssembler().GetMenuItems(MenuPaths.Global + "/mysection", 1);
            if (!sectionMenuItems.Any())
            {
                var mainMenu = new SectionMenuItem("MySection", MenuPaths.Global + "/mysection") {IsAvailable = CheckAccess};
                menuItems.Add(mainMenu);
            }
 
            var adminItem = new UrlMenuItem("My Plugin",
                                            MenuPaths.Global + "/mysection/myplugin",
                                            RootMenuUri + "/Admin/Default.aspx") {IsAvailable = CheckAccess};
            menuItems.Add(adminItem);
 
            return menuItems;
        }

All my plugins have this code. I hope someone can shed some light into this. I've spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what I did wrong before I gave up.

Thanks in advance.