I have a custom AJAX service that returns a list of items by using TypedContentAtRoot and selecting the custom result objects.

This works fine unless there are macros in any of the text fields, in which case I get Cannot render a macro when there is no current PublishedContentRequest

I actually don't need the macros to run here, so I'd be happy with a solution that didn't bother running them and just returned the comment markup OR one that actually ran them.

My code is:

        UmbracoHelper uhelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);

        var res = uhelper
            .TypedContentAtRoot().First()
            .DescendantsOrSelf()
            .Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "Event")
            .OrderBy(x => x.GetPropertyValue<MyApp.EventDates>("eventDates").EventDate)
            .Select(x => new MyAppEventDetails(x));

The property values are retrieved using e.g.

Description = content.GetPropertyValue<string>("eventDescription");

I see there are overloads GetPropertyValue for recursing, but not for disabling macro expansion.