Umbraco strongly typed published content experiments

Article.cs

// demo of a basic strongly typed published content for an article
// you just need to drop the following class anywhere in your code
// and every strongly typed methods returning IPublishedContent will
// actually return an Article instance (which is an IPublishedContent)

// we want the class named Article though the content type alias is 'newsArticle'
[PublishedContentModel("newsArticle")]
public partial class Article : PublishedContentModel
{
  public Article(IPublishedContent content)
    : base(content)
  {}

  // that syntax may be verbose BUT it's fast and should be generated anyway
  public string Title { get { return this.GetPropertyValue<string>("title"); } }
  public string BodyText { get { return this.GetPropertyValue<string>("body"); } }
}

// use it
public class JustTesting
{
  public void Test()
  {
    // get the titles of the articles at the root
    var rootContent = UmbracoContext.Current.ContentCache.GetAtRoot();
    var rootArticles = rootContent.OfType<Article>();
    var titles = rootArticles.Select(a => a.Title);
    
    // get the titles of all the articles below node 1234
    var node = UmbracoContext.Current.ContentCache.GetById(1234);
    var articles = node.Descendants<Article>();
    titles = articles.Select(a => a.Title);    
  }
}

// and of course in just any Razor view:
@model.Title
@model.Children<SubArticle>.DateOfFirstRelease.ToString("yyyyMMdd");