Question

Im currently making usercontrol for umbraco that takes all Nodes indside a Node names “Features”…
And it all works perfekt, until i wanted to get content from the “Content Picker” property (named linkToPage).

When i tried to use GetProperty("linkToPage").Value, I got an error about it being an object.
So i then added it to a var and debugged, and saw it returned somthing a bit strange…

var linkIdVar = child.GetProperty("linkToPage");

Returns:

-   linkIdVar   {1081}      umbraco.interfaces.IProperty {umbraco.NodeFactory.Property}
    -   [umbraco.NodeFactory.Property]  {1081}  umbraco.NodeFactory.Property
        Alias   "linkToPage"    string
        Value   "1081"  string
        +   Version {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}  System.Guid
        +   Non-Public members      
    Alias   "linkToPage"    string
    Value   "1081"  string
    +   Version {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}  System.Guid

And i can’t seem to get the Value to a Int without getting error about it being an object…

So does anyone know how to get arround this, or know a better way to get the page from a Content Picker?

Answer 1

I think you might need to unbox the value to an integer, like so:

var val = (int) child.GetProperty("linkToPage").Value;

However, if the content of the property value is not an integer, but a string, as the debugging information seems to indicate, then you need to convert to an integer, like so:

var val = int.Parse(child.GetProperty("linkToPage").Value as string);