try:

<a href="@umbraco.library.GetMedia(System.Int32.Parse(page.thumbnail))" />

OK, thanks for the response. Firstly, the GetMedia method doesn't have an overload with 1 parameter, so I had to make a small adjustment just to get the Macro to compile:

<a href="@umbraco.library.GetMedia(System.Int32.Parse(page.thumbnail), false)" />

When the macro runs on the page the contents of the href attribute is:

MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathSelectionIterator

Obviously not exactly what we're looking for. I see where you were going with that though, does anyone else have any other suggestions as to the syntax for this?

oeps mixed up some method's. Try this:

<a href="@umbraco.library.GetMedia(System.Int32.Parse(page.thumbnail), false)/umbracoFile" />

Tried that and the result is now

<img src="MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathSelectionIterator/umbracoFile">

Still no path to the image?

Hi Matt,

As an alternative to using the XPathNodeIterator how about using the uQuery helper library which will return an umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media.Media object from the media ID instead ? (not tested this snippet)

@using umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory
@using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media
@using uComponents.Core
@using uComponents.Core.uQueryExtensions


@foreach(var page in Model.Children) {
  <li>
    <a href="@page.Url" title="@page.Name">@page.Name</a>
    <img src="@uQuery.GetMedia(System.Int32.Parse(page.thumbnail).GetProperty<string>("umbracoFile")" />
  </li>
}

HTH,

Hendy

Oeps, must have been a sleep last night... mixing xslt with C#. Hendy's approach looks correct. You could do it without uComponents too using the code snippet from Lee at this post.

Hi, 

I know it's already answered. But I tought it might be interesting to share an other solution.  

Basically it's plain old .Net code but used in a razor script.

@{
    var media = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media.Media(
                Convert.ToInt32(@Parameter.Video)
        );
    string imageUrl = media.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value.ToString();
}

Hi Damiaan, having read through this thread and tried several approaches, your reply helped very much.

The exact code (which sits inside an @if statement) that I used is as follows.

foreach (var item in @Model.Masters.Where("Visible"))
{
var media = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media.Media(Convert.ToInt32(@item.mainImage));
string imageUrl = media.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value.ToString();
<div class="slide">
    <a href="@item.Url">
      <img src="@imageUrl" />
    </a>
    <div class="caption" style="bottom: 0"><p>@item.Name</p></div>
</div>                           
}                  

This is my first Umbraco project, so this may not be the best approach, but it works.

Don't use the Media API. It's very slow and has no caching. Try umbraco.library.GetMedia or Library.MediaById.

You can also try DAMP. Than you can have the media xml in your umbraco.config which is easier to use.

Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks a lot for the tip. 

Library.MediaById works fine.

Actually what's the difference between the umbraco.library and Library namespaces?

greetings,

Anthony

Hello,

umbraco.library is originally created for xslt. If you use umbraco.library.GetMedia it will return a XPathNodeIterator and it's not easy to work with that in Razor. If you use Library.MediaById it will return a DynamicMedia object which is easier to work with in Razor.

Jeroen

@Jeroen, thanks for the info. I'm learning everyday something new in Umbraco land :)

greetings,

Anthony

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