Shahin Alborz – EPiServer & ASP.NET developer

Here’s a simple extension method for EPiServer when you need to get the friendly url from an internal url.

Note the last line checking if the Uri is an absoluteUri first. If you try to get the AbsoluteUri if it’s not you will get the following exception:
InvalidOperationException: This operation is not supported for a relative URI. This operation is not supported for a relative URI.

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public static string GetFriendlyURL(this string internalURL)
{
   var url = new UrlBuilder(internalURL);
   EPiServer.Global.UrlRewriteProvider.ConvertToExternal(url, null, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8);
   return url.Uri.IsAbsoluteUri ? url.Uri.AbsoluteUri : url.Uri.OriginalString;
}

In EpiServer you might sometimes need to get PageData, preferably typed, from a page guid.

Here is a simple method for getting a page only by sending a guid as an argument, which we can do thanks to the PermanentPageLinkMap class, and results of other pagetypes than the requested are ignored, as well as any permanent links which are file links.

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public static T GetPage<T>(Guid pageGuid) where T : PageData
{
    var linkMap = EPiServer.Web.PermanentLinkMapStore.Find(pageGuid) as PermanentPageLinkMap;
    if (linkMap != null)
    {
        var page = DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(linkMap.PageReference);
        if (page != null && page is T)
        {
            return (T)page;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Tested in EPiServer CMS 6, but should work fine in version 5 as well.