Open an EPiServer page

Here are a few ways to retrieve data for a given page (expressed in a PageReference instance) in EPiServer:

PageReference pageref = ...;
PageData pagedata;

// In a page (which is a sub-class of PageBase, e.g. TemplatePage, EditPage, SimplePage)
pagedata = this.Getpage(pageref);

// In a user control (which is a sub-class of UserControlBase)
pagedata = this.Getpage(pageref);

// Anywhere
pagedata = Global.EPDataFactory.GetPage(pageref);

Global.EPDataFactory also has some other useful functions:

// Open a page from a given FriendlyUrl rather than a PageReference
// (which requires knowing the Page ID)
pagedata = Global.EPDataFactory.GetPageByURL("/Bokningsbara-kurser/");

BTW, it’s also possible to initialize a PageReference with a Url (although NOT a Friendly Url):

pageref = PageReference.ParseUrl("http://localhost:8889/shop/Puff.aspx?id=130");

UPDATE (2007-06-04):

If you have a so called “simple address” such as “/foo”, then none of the above will work. In that case you have to use code such as this:

PropertyCriteriaCollection critcol = new PropertyCriteriaCollection();

PropertyCriteria crit = new PropertyCriteria();
crit.Condition = EPiServer.Filters.CompareCondition.Equal;
crit.Name = "PageExternalURL";
crit.Type = PropertyDataType.String;
crit.Value = simple_address.Trim(new char[] { '/' }); // Remove initial "/"
critcol.Add(crit);

PageDataCollection pagecol = Global.EPDataFactory.FindPagesWithCriteria(Global.EPConfig.RootPage, critcol);
if (pagecol.Count > 0)
{
   return pagecol[0].LinkURL;
}