If you are using TypedContent you will get a strongly type IPublishedContent object.

You can retreive the property like this with that:

var customProperty = item.GetPropertyValue("customProperty") // you need to pass the correct alias of your property

Dave

Hi Gary and Jan,

I just like add something to the great post Jan already has written. First of all I think that Jan missed to change TypedContent to Content in his example. And you should not have the @ in front of you variable. So the full could should look like this:

var id = CurrentPage.companyContentItem;
var item = Umbraco.Content(id);

var customProperty = item.customProperty

@customProperty 

When this is said, you can use the .HasValue method to check if the content picker has a value picked on the current page, and only display the content if this is the case. As Jan alredy has pointed out is that there are a syntax for strongly typed and dynamic Razor. Here is some documentation about the built-in Umbraco v7+ property editors https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/Built-in-Property-Editors-v7/ If you are taking your case, where you are using the content picker https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/Built-in-Property-Editors-v7/Content-Picker

As you can see there are two MVC View Exampleexamples on how to get data from the picker, and it´s refers to the strongly typed syntaxt and the dynamics, as Jan has pointed out.

So your exmple with the check if the picker has a value on the current page, would look like this.

var id = CurrentPage.companyContentItem;

if (CurrentPage.HasValue("id")){
    var item = Umbraco.Content(id);
    <a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>
}

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

I am actually embarrassed to ask ... when/how do I know when dynamic versus strongy-typed syntax should be/is being used? 

Hi Gary

Don't be :) - It is confusing to figure out why where and how sometimes. But in short it's just two different ways of achieving the same thing. There are of course some differences and most hardcore c# developers in the community seem to prefer using strongly typed because it gives them more control of things where the dynamic approach has some limitations I think... (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong please :)).

But apart from that it's up to you to decide whether you're going to use the one or the other approach. I comes down the syntax you prefer writing I guess.

The dynamic approach is more concise than the strongly typed model approach - I think it might be worth running through Jeavons slides from the german umbraco festival earlier this year where he talks about Razor and the different syntaxes http://www.slideshare.net/JeavonLeopold/umbraco-oktoberfest-2014

Hope this helps a bit.

/Jan

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