What is the Content Delivery namespace for using ComponentFactory

Question

I have a traditional non-DD4T website in Tridion 2011 SP1 where in I have queried for a component from Broker db using content delivery query/criteria. I have received the tcm id of the component and now looking for accessing the fields inside it using ComponentFactory. I am getting error on the first line below code asking to provide a namespace for ComponentFactory-

ComponentFactory compf = new ComponentFactory();

var comp = compf.GetComponent(tcmid); //tcmid returned from ExecuteQuery()

I understand that in DD4T we have DD4T.Factories NS to make it work but I want it to work with the normal content delivery NS if at all available for ComponentFactories. As DD4T uses the normal Content Delivery APIs only then the NS should be there but I am not able to find it?

Answer 1

First of all where did you find that ComponentFactory, wouldn't that also tell you what namespace it belongs to?

As for using the Broker API, start with reading the documentation (requires login). Then you will see that you can use the Querying API you mention roughly as follows:

using Tridion.ContentDelivery.DynamicContent.Query;
using Tridion.ContentDelivery.DynamicContent;

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
string templateUri = "tcm:2-29-32";
int publicationId = 2;

using (ComponentPresentationAssembler cpa = new ComponentPresentationAssembler("tcm:0-0-0", Page))
using (ComponentPresentationFactory cpf = new ComponentPresentationFactory(publicationId))
{
    // get list of all Components for this Publication based on a given Schema
    Criteria itemTypeCriteria = new ItemTypeCriteria(16);
    Criteria schemaCriteria = new ItemSchemaCriteria(27);
    AndCriteria criteria = new AndCriteria(itemTypeCriteria, schemaCriteria);

    Query query = new Query(criteria);
    string[] result = query.ExecuteQuery();
    foreach (string uri in result)
    {
        // get Component Presentation for found Component
        using (ComponentPresentation cp = cpf.GetComponentPresentation(uri, templateUri))
        {
            if (cp != null)
            {
                // use ComponentPresentationAssembler since cp.Content does not resolve REL
                sb.Append(cpa.GetContent(string.Format("tcm:{0}-{1}", publicationId, cp.ComponentId), 
                           string.Format("tcm:{0}-{1}-32", publicationId, cp.ComponentTemplateId)));
            }
        }
    }
}