The ContentService acts as a "gateway" to Umbraco data for operations which are related to Content.

Browse the v9 API documentation for ContentService.

• Namespace: Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services

• Assembly: Umbraco.Core.dll

All samples in this document will require references to the following dll:

• Umbraco.Core.dll

All samples in this document will require the following using statements:

using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services;

For Razor views:

@using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Services

Getting the service

If you wish to use the content service in a class, you need to use Dependency Injection (DI) in your constructor:

public class MyClass
{
    private IContentService _contentService;
    
    public MyClass(IContentService contentService)
    {
        _contentService = contentService;
    }
}

In Razor views, you can access the content service through the @inject directive:

@inject IContentService ContentService

In the example below, a new page is programmatically created using the content service. It is assumed that there are two document types, namely people and person. In this case, a new person is added underneath the people page.