Hi Martin

Alot will depend on which version of Umbraco you are using: If you make your usercontrol inherit from the special class UmbracoUserControl

public partial class MyLovelyUserControl : UmbracoUserControl

Then you will have access to all the Umbraco Helper Methods

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/UmbracoHelper/

and so in your User Control ascx portion you will be able to write:

<%@ Import Namespace="Umbraco.Web" %>
<%
    var currentPageId = UmbracoContext.Current.PageId;
    var currentPage = Umbraco.TypedContent(currentPageId);
%>
<h1><%=currentPage.Name %></h1>

The currentPage returned above is of IPublishedContent type; you can read about all the available properties on IPublishedContent here:

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/IPublishedContent/Properties

If the site is an older version of Umbraco and doesn't have IPublished content etc then if memory serves me correctly the way to get the current node from the content cache in a user control is to use Umbraco NodeFactory eg:

<%@ Import Namespace="umbraco.NodeFactory" %>
<%
    var currentNode = Node.GetCurrent();
%>
<h2><%=currentNode.Name %></h2>

regards

Marc

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