Sitefinity CMS
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  • Introduction
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  • Readers Guidelines
  • Installation
  • Core Concepts
  • Sitefinity in Visual Studio
  • Sitefinity Building Parts
  • Developing with Sitefinity
  • Designing with Sitefinity
  • Security
  • How-to
  • API Reference
    • Lucene.Net Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Analysis Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Documents Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Highlight Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Index Namespace
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    • Lucene.Net.QueryParsers Namespace
    • Lucene.Net.Search Namespace
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    • Lucene.Net.Store Namespace
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    • Telerik Namespace
    • Telerik.Blogs Namespace
    • Telerik.Blogs.Configuration Namespace
    • Telerik.Blogs.Data Namespace
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      • BrowserCache Class
      • ContentHttpHandler Class
      • ContentIndexerInfo Class
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      • ContentManager Class
      • ContentPropertyDescriptor Class
      • ContentProviderBase Class
      • ContentTypeDescriptionProvider Class
      • ContentTypeDescriptor Class
      • ContentUrlRewriterService Class
      • ContentWorkflow Class
      • ContentWorkflowService Class
      • DateTimeExpression Class
      • Expiration Class
      • GenericContentModule Class
      • ImagesHelper Class
      • Generic MetaDataExpressionBase Class
      • RssChannelProvider Class
      • StagedContent Class
      • StringFilterEventArgs Class
      • SummaryParser Class
      • SummarySettingsConverter Class
      • Generic IsForUpdate Delegate
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      • ICategory Interface
      • IComment Interface
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      • IMetaData Interface
      • IMetaDataExpression Interface
      • Generic IMetaDataExpression Interface
      • IMetaFieldControl Interface
      • IMetaInfo Interface
      • IMetaSearchInfo Interface
      • IProviderName Interface
      • ITag Interface
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      • IThumbnail Interface
      • ContentStatus Enumeration
      • ContentUrlRewriterService.FormatOptions Enumeration
      • JoinType Enumeration
      • MetaValueTypes Enumeration
      • SearchCondition Enumeration
      • SummarySettings.SummaryMode Enumeration
      • UrlCacheMode Enumeration
      • Variables Enumeration
      • MetaInfo Structure
      • MetaSearchInfo Structure
      • SummarySettings Structure
    • Telerik.Cms.Engine.Configuration Namespace
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    • Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.Tags Namespace
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    • Telerik.Events Namespace
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    • Telerik.FileManager Namespace
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    • Telerik.Forums Namespace
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    • Telerik.Framework Namespace
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    • Telerik.Libraries Namespace
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    • Telerik.Lists Namespace
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    • Telerik.Lists.Data.PersistanceXml Namespace
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ContentManager Class
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Telerik.Cms.Engine Namespace : ContentManager Class


This class is a main API class for working with content in Sitefinity.

Inherits ManagerBase abstract class. Represents an intermediary between web controls of Generic Content based Modules and data providers. Web controls should exclusively work with ContentManager for any data related work.

 

Namespace: Telerik.Cms.Engine
Assembly: Telerik.Cms.Engine (in Telerik.Cms.Engine.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration) 
Public Class ContentManager 
   Inherits ManagerBase(Of ContentProviderBase)
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Dim instance As ContentManager
C# 
public class ContentManager : ManagerBase<ContentProviderBase>

Example

The following example demonstrates how to programatically access content in Sitefinity by taking advantage of ContentManager class and it's members.
This is a simple example that shows how to use ContentManager class to replace an occurance of certain word with another one, in all Content objects, such as Generic Content, News items, Blog posts, Events and so on.
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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

 using Telerik.Cms.Engine;

 namespace Samples.Sitefinity.Content
{
   public class WordReplacer
   {
       // This method will replace all occurances of oldValue string with the
       // newValue string in all Generic Content objects in all Generic Content providers
       
       public void ReplaceWords(string oldValue, string newValue)
       {
           // we are going to loop through all the Generic Content providers
           
           foreach (KeyValuePair<string, ContentProviderBase> provider in ContentManager.Providers)
           {
               // for each provider we are going to create a new instance of ContentManager
               
               ContentManager cntManager = new ContentManager(provider.Key);
               
               // we are going to get all content from the current provider
               
               IList allContent = cntManager.GetContent();

               // we are going to loop through all the content in the current provider
               
               foreach (IContent content in allContent)
               {
                   // next we are going to get the IContent object that is associated with transaction
                   // so that we can modify it
                   
                   IContent contentInTransaction = cntManager.GetContent(content.ID);
                   
                   // IContent.Content property is an object, not necessarily a string (e.g. it's binary
                   // for Images and Documents module). We are going to try to cast it string.
                   
                   string textualContent = contentInTransaction.Content as string;
                   
                   // replacing will only make sense if content is string
                   
                   if (textualContent != null)
                   {
                       // we are going to replace all occurances of oldValue with a newValue
                       
                       textualContent = textualContent.Replace(oldValue, newValue);
                       
                       // we are going to change the existing Content property, with the new modified one
                       
                       contentInTransaction.Content = textualContent;
                       
                       // finally we are going to save the content
                       
                       cntManager.SaveContent(contentInTransaction);
                   }
               }

           }
       }
   }
}

Remarks

ContentManager class is used in all modules that are based on Generic Content module, such as News, Events, Blogs, Images and Documents and so on. The respective manager classes of these modules all expose Content property, which is the instance of ContentManager created with a proper provider name. Therefore, you can access the methods of this class by accessing the Content property of respective manager class.

Requirements

Supported in Sitefinity 3.0, 3.1, 3.2

See Also