Hi Pål,

Actually the Community system is dependent on a http context to be able to start up. If you want to use the community system in a console app you will have to fake a http context. Johan Olofsson at EPiServer has written three blog posts how to achieve this and attached sample code. You can find the blog posts here:

http://labs.episerver.com/en/Blogs/Johano/Dates/2008/6/Hack-Getting-the-html-from-a-PageData-in-EPiServer-CMS5/

http://labs.episerver.com/en/Blogs/Johano/Dates/2008/6/Hack-Getting-the-html-from-a-PageData-in-EPiServer-CMS5-Part2/

http://labs.episerver.com/en/Blogs/Johano/Dates/2008/6/Hack-Faking-HttpContext-under-EPiServer-CMS5/

Best regards,
Tom

I have read the blogs on how to fake the HttpContext, but even though I now have HttpContext my CommunitySystem.CurrentContext is still null.

Any ideas?

Claus,

Once you have HttpContext you will need to invoke EPiServer.Common.Settings.LoadSettings(). I think that that in turn will require you to have an app.config, simillar to a web.config, in your application, a license file in the bin-folder and probably a few other files from a real installation as well.

It was a while since I last did this so I'm not a 100% sure what LoadSettings() will require, but perhaps you can try it out and let us know if it worked, and if it didn't, what exception is thrown.