Querying & Models

Overview of multiple ways of querying, filtering, and searching published content for use on your website.

UDI Identifiers

A UDI is a string that identifies an Umbraco entity, such as umb://document/4fed18d8c5e34d5e88cfff3a5b457bf2. Some of the querying APIs accept UDIs directly.

IPublishedContent

IPublishedContent is a strongly typed model for content, media, and members that is used to render content in your views for your website.

UmbracoHelper

UmbracoHelper is the unified way to work with published content/media on your website. Whether you are using MVC or WebForms you will be able to use UmbracoHelper to query/traverse Umbraco published data.

IMemberManager

IMemberManager is a user manager interface for accessing member data in the form of MemberIdentityUser and converting it to IPublishedContent.

IPublishedContentQuery

The IPublishedContentQuery interface contains query methods for accessing strongly typed content in services etc.

ITagQuery

The ITagQuery interface allows to work with tags in Umbraco.

UmbracoContext

The UmbracoContext is a simplified way to work with the current request on your website.