Getting the Page and EPiServer CurrentPage object from HttpContext

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServer

Just a little quick tip when needing to use either the Page object or the EPiServer CurrentPage object from a class file. HttpContext.Current will give you access to the current request, what we can do is cast HttpContext.Current.Handler (since Page implements the IHttpHandler interface) to System.Web.UI.Page.

var page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as System.Web.UI.Page;
 
if (page != null)
{
    // do something with the page object
}

We can take this a step further and cast it to EPiServer.PageBase which gives us access to the CurrentPage object.

private static PageData CurrentPage
{
    get
    {
	var page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as EPiServer.PageBase;
 
	if (page == null)
	{
	    return null;
	}
 
	return page.CurrentPage;
    }
}