Retrieving content types

Getting a single content type container

Content types can be added either at the root level, under another content type or under a content type container (or folders as they're called in the Umbraco backoffice). The approach for getting a single container is similar to getting a single content type, meaning that you can look up a container - either by its GUID:

or its numeric counterpart:

Getting a list of content type containers

In the same way as you can get the content types of a container, you can get the child containers of another container. This is done by calling the GetContainers method with an array of numeric IDs:

Also, if the array is empty, all containers will be returned: