This is just a quick post to show how to get image URL via code behind.
This is mostly useful when you are binding children items to a repeater or returning image URL in a JSON webservice
public static string GetImageURL(Item currentItem) { string imageURL = string.Empty; Sitecore.Data.Fields.ImageField imageField = currentItem.Fields["Image"]; if (imageField != null && imageField.MediaItem != null) { Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem image = new Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem(imageField.MediaItem); imageURL = Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/', Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(image)); } return imageURL; }
Cheers
Thank you Naveed, this became very helpful when dynamically binding via a Repeater on strongly typed Template objects
Thank you so much
Great reading your blog poost