Hello,

In Umbraco 7 our system made use of custom static helper classes, which used ApplicationContext.Current.DatabaseContext.Database for database access. With DI in Umbraco 8 however, from what I understood we are supposed to access the database using an IScopeProvider.

The problem here is that if I keep the helper classes static my project won't build, since I'm using the constructor pattern to inject the scopeProvider. For example:

public class customHelper {

    private readonly IScopeProvider _scopeProvider;

    public customHelper(IScopeProvider scopeProvider)
    {
        _scopeProvider = scopeProvider;
    }

    public object getItem()
    {
        using (var scope = _scopeProvider.CreateScope())
        {
            var item = scope.Database.FirstOrDefault(...);
            scope.Complete();
            return item;
        }
    }
}

If I want to use this helper in my views I need to instatiate it, howerer here I don't have access to the scopeProvider and thus I cannot instantiate and use my helper classes.

Do you maybe have any ideas on how to deal with this? Maybe a way to keep the helper static, or a way to instatiate it within a view.

Thanks!