Hi Connie,

I think Lee Kelleher made quite a good effort to document uComponents. Have you had a peek at the codeplex site? :-)

uQuery helper methods overview: http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=uQuery

uComponents DataTypes, Extensions etc.: http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/documentation

All the best,

Bo

 Yeah, I've looked at those pages many times and they are pretty worthless for someone new to this and new to XML.  There are no examples, only code fragments.  So far all of the code that seems similar fails to deliver the correct results. 

I'll begin sharing what does NOT work in the hopes someone can shed some light or I can help another from wasting as much time as I have chasing a ghost.

Simple example, never returns the page property, but instead returns "umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Property".

          var currentNode = uQuery.GetCurrentNode().GetAncestorOrSelfNodes().FirstOrDefault();
            string activeMenu = currentNode.GetProperty("activeMenu").ToString();

            Response.Write(activeMenu);

Similar approach, does not work either:

          var currentNode = uQuery.GetCurrentNode().GetAncestorOrSelfNodes().FirstOrDefault();
            string activeMenu = currentNode.GetProperty("activeMenu").Value.ToString();

            if (activeMenu != null)
                Response.Write(activeMenu);
            else
                Response.Write("none");

Does not work:

          Node target = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath("$ancestorOrSelf/* [activeMenu = 'Lawyers' or @id=1672]").FirstOrDefault();
            string activeMenu = target.GetProperty("activeMenu").Value.ToString();

            if (activeMenu != null)
                Response.Write(activeMenu);
            else
                Response.Write("none");

Hi Connie,

Instead of:

 .GetProperty("activeMenu").Value.ToString()

try:

.GetProperty<string>("activeMenu");

HTH,

Hendy

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