Introduction
This is a simple code to show how we can load a tree nodes from a table records.
How we use this code
At first step we must create a DataBase and name it "dbTree".
Then we must run this script to create table that reserve our tree nodes. We name this table "tPOI":
USE [dbTree]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tPOI](
[NodeID] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ParentID] [numeric](18, 0) NULL,
[NodeName] [nchar](10) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NULL,
[InUse] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_tPOI_InUse] DEFAULT ((1)),
CONSTRAINT [PK_tPOI] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[NodeID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
And finally load this records to "tPOI".
NodeID ParentID NodeName InUse
1 0 RootNode1 True
2 1 Child1 True
3 1 Child2 True
4 1 Child3 True
5 2 Child1_1 True
6 2 Child1_2 True
7 0 RootNode2 True
How it works?
Our strategy to load nodes is simple: RootNodes don't have ParentNode so we set their ParentNode Field to Zero ("0") and every child node has a parent node that help us to attach this node to its parent.
Is Simple, isn't?
Now we go to code section:
There is just one function that load records to tree, "treeLoader()".