How do you gain access to database context?

KirilModrin

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Lets say i want to display 10 most recent articles. I would ussually have service that gets the articles sorts pass in the view model etc. How can i do it with epi server? There are no entitites that refference table how is data even saved? How do you get the dbContext?

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Aug 20, 2021 7:25

Scott Reed

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You don't access content for the platform directly via the database. You load data either via injecting the IContentLoader/IContentRepository or if you're on the DXP the correct way of searching for datasets would be using Search & Navigation the cloud based elastic solution that Optimizely provides for indexing and searching content.

https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/developer-guides/CMS/Content/icontentrepository-and-datafactory/

https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/developer-guides/search-navigation/

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Edited, Aug 20, 2021 8:31