Access the children of an item

You can use the Sitecore.Data.Items.Children property to access the children of an item. For example, to access the children of the /Sitecore/Content/Home item in the Master database:

Sitecore.Data.Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");

Sitecore.Data.Items.Item home = master.GetItem("/sitecore/content/home");

foreach(Sitecore.Data.Items.Item child in home.Children)
{
    // Process child item
}

The system creates a new Sitecore.Collections.Childlist object each time you access the Sitecore.Data.Items.Item.Children property. The implementation of the C# for each statement accesses the property only once.

Sitecore.Data.Database master = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master");

Sitecore.Data.Items.Item home = master.GetItem("/sitecore/content/home");

Sitecore.Collections.ChildList children = home.Children;

for(int childIndex=0; childIndex<children.Count ; childIndex++)
{
    // Process child item
}

You can also get the children items by invoking the items GetChildren method. For example, to retrieve children items of the current page, use this code:

var children = currentPage.GetChildren();