Hi,

We're building an external library that queries a search indexing system we use. The library is designed to be dropped into any web project, including umbraco sites.

Now, when it's being used in an Umbraco site, we want to take advantage of some Umbraco features by getting the current page node via Node.GetCurrent(). If Node.GetCurrent() is called in a standard non-Umbraco ASP.NET website project, then GetCurrent() will throw a NullReferenceException which can catch in a try/catch block, so no problem. However, somewhere somehow, a TypeInitializationException is being thrown when a call to Node.GetCurrent() is made, and it's not being caught by our try/catch block.

[code]try
{
Node currentPage = Node.GetCurrent();
// Do something with current page
}
catch
{
// Not an Umbraco website, so do something else
}[/code]

So I guess the question is, is there some programmic way we get detect whether or not we're executing inside an Umbraco instance, or an ordinary ASP.NET website?

My work colleague had the idea of detecting the presense of the /data/umbraco.config file, does this seem a good idea, to you?