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Daniel Draper 36 posts 57 karma points

Mar 25, 2011 @ 03:50

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Razor in MasterPage for checking properties

Razor

Hi Everyone,

I am checking if a property has a value on a MasterPage using the following code, while this code works it's not very elegant. Does anyone have a more elegant or better solutions?

heroImage is a media picker property. I noticed if no node was selected then heroImage was a string however if a value was available it was an int which is why I have checked the type, slightly annoying.

<umbraco:Macro language="razor" runat="server">
      @using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media;

      @if(@Model.heroImage.GetType() != typeof(string)) {
         Media m = new Media(@Model.heroImage);
         <img src='@m.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value' alt="@Model.Name" width='@m.getProperty("umbracoWidth").Value' height='@m.getProperty("umbracoHeight").Value' />
      }
  </umbraco:Macro>

Cheers,

Daniel

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5045 posts 15476 karma points MVP admin hq

Mar 25, 2011 @ 08:32
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You can just cast the property to string:
```
@if(Model.heroImage.ToString() != "") {
 //do something
}
```
This will return false if the property does not exist or has no value.
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Sebastiaan Janssen 5045 posts 15476 karma points MVP admin hq

Mar 25, 2011 @ 08:37
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Ps. Instead of using the media API, you could just use the built in DynamicMedia functionality, and you can loose the using statement:
```
@if(Model.heroImage.ToString() != "") {
   var m = Model.MediaById(Model.heroImage);
   <img src="@m.UmbracoFile" alt="@Model.Name" height="@m.UmbracoHeight" width="@m.UmbracoWidth" />
}
```
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Daniel Draper 36 posts 57 karma points

Mar 28, 2011 @ 00:27

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Thanks, can't believe I didn't think about .ToString *headdesk*

Thanks for the DynamicMedia option, been almost 12 months since I have worked on Umbraco however finally convinced the people that matter Umbraco is the way.

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5045 posts 15476 karma points MVP admin hq

Mar 28, 2011 @ 08:03

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Hehe, no problem. We've all been there.

The Razor implementation is really new so you can't be blamed for not knowing about it. Glad I could help!

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