Return unordered list from hierarchical sql data

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Published on 2009-03-12T00:31:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 10:33 UTC
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I have table with pageId, parentPageId, title columns.

Is there a way to return unordered nested list using asp.net, cte, stored procedure, UDF... anything?

Table looks like this:

PageID    ParentId    Title
1         null        Home
2         null        Products
3         null        Services
4         2           Category 1
5         2           Category 2
6         5           Subcategory 1
7         5           SubCategory 2
8         6           Third Level Category 1
...

Result should look like this:

Home
Products
    Category 1
        SubCategory 1
            Third Level Category 1
        SubCategory 2
    Category 2
Services

Ideally, list should contain <a> tags as well, but I hope I can add it myself if I find a way to create <ul> list.

EDIT 1: I thought that already there is a solution for this, but it seems that there isn't. I wanted to keep it simple as possible and to escape using ASP.NET menu at any cost, because it uses tables by default. Then I have to use CSS Adapters etc.

Even if I decide to go down the "ASP.NET menu" route I was able to find only this approach: http://aspalliance.com/822 which uses DataAdapter and DataSet :(

Any more modern or efficient way?

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