Images not rendering in custom user controls - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 01-Mar-2011 00:00

Here's the situation. I am creating a new custom control that will display Event information based on a parameter passed to it. So, I create an Event and place an image in the Description. This image is stored in the default album and the WYSIWYG editor inserted the following HTML:

<strong>Type your content here...</strong>

<p><img alt="" src="/images/default-album/2011/03/01/Caedmon2.jpg" sfref="[images]8c1cfdbf-72eb-4fa0-ae0f-77b6e4844d61" /> </p>

Now, I publish this and continue on my way. When I access the page that is displaying my custom user control, I am displaying the Description (Content) field as an asp:Label. So the front-end is a simple asp:Label:

<asp:Label ID="lbDescription" runat="server"></asp:Label>

And the backend is just assigning the Content property of the Event object to it:

private void LoadInterface(String ID)

EventsManager manager = new EventsManager();

Event eventObj = manager.GetEvent(new Guid(ID));

lbDescription.Text = eventObj.Content;

The image is rendered as follows:

<img alt="" src="[images]8c1cfdbf-72eb-4fa0-ae0f-77b6e4844d61">

Obviously this does not point to an image. Do I need to render the Content property differently, or using another property or method elsewhere?

Thanks guys!

Posted by Community Admin on 01-Mar-2011 00:00

You can try retrieving the MediaURL to display your image. This is a good article in how to retrieve the image you are looking for www.sitefinity.com/.../modules-built-in-modules-api-media-modules-images-managing-images-finding-images.html

<asp:Image ID="MediaURLImage1" runat="server" />

Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image myImage = new Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image();

MediaURLImage1.ImageUrl = myImage.MediaUrl.ToString();

Posted by Community Admin on 01-Mar-2011 00:00

Thanks for the reply! Actually, I got it. I was viewing the control in Preview mode. Once the page is published the content is rendered correctly.

Thanks again!

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