Code for using page properties as Dynamic Properties in EPiServer and retrieve their values up the chain. Code is provided as is. If you use it, you might consider doing some nice null- and empty checks.

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Code for using page properties as Dynamic Properties in EPiServer and retrieve their values up the chain.

Implements the similar logic as Anders Hattestad proposes in this blog post: http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Anders-Hattestad/Dates/2013/8/Using-Page-Properties-as-dynamic-properties-in-EPiServer-7/

Code is provided as is. If you use it you might consider doing some nice null- and empty checks, or your project probably will break.

FindProperty.cs

using EPiServer;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.ServiceLocation;

namespace Core.Properties
{
    public static class PropertyFinder
    {

        public static T FindProperty<T>(PageData currentPage, string propertyName) 
        {
            if (currentPage[propertyName] != null) {
              return (T)currentPage[propertyName];              
            }

            var contentRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
            var parentPage = contentRepository.Get<PageData>(currentPage.ParentLink);

            if (parentPage == null) {
                return default(T);
            }

            if (parentPage[propertyName] != null) {
                return (T)parentPage[propertyName];                
            }

            return FindProperty<T>(parentPage, propertyName);
        }
    }
}

ViewModel.cs

private MyPropertyType _myInheritedProperty;
public MyPropertyType MyInheritedProperty
{
    get
    {
        if (_myInheritedProperty == null)
        {
            _myInheritedProperty = Core.Properties.PropertyFinder.FindProperty<MyPropertyType>(CurrentPage, "MyInheritedProperty");
        }
        return _myInheritedProperty;
    }
}