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Which element to use to retrieve and store a list of div tags (C#)?

This is what i currently use, but I need this to be stored as List which I can re-use in other classes.
var docbaseResults = repo.MyProcess.MainMenuExplorer.Docbase_QCMP3_Results.Find(".//div[#class~'webfx-tree-item' and #visible='true']");
EDIT:
SOLUTION:
List<WebElement> docbaseResults = element.Find<Ranorex.WebElement>( ".//div[#class~'webfx-tree-item' and #visible='true']").ToList();

As mentioned in documentation, "Find" method returns an IList<T> collection. You can use LINQ Method .ToList() and of course you should remove "as WebElement".
List<WebElement> docbaseResults = element.Find(
".//div[#class~'webfx-tree-item' and #visible='true']").ToList();

List<WebElement> docBaseResult = new List<WebElement>();
doBaseResult.Add(element.Find('') as WebElement);

I get 0 results back when using this one... #Maxime matter
List<WebElement> docBaseResults = new List<WebElement>();
docBaseResults.Add(repo.MyProcess.MainMenuExplorer.Docbase_QCMP3_Results.Find(".//div[#class~'webfx-tree-item' and #visible='true']") as WebElement);

Umbraco 4.11 get Parent Node

Should be a simple answer.
I am using Umbraco 4.11 and I need to get the parent Node of a cast node. I am a bit of a noob to C# and I am fixing a control someone else made. Should be simple but it was originally written before the DLL update from 4.7 to 4.11.
So below is my code. I need to get the parent Node. What would be the correct syntax to do this. You can see where the old code is commented out.
Thanks in advance.
//New using
using umbraco.NodeFactory;
private string GetEmailContactProperty()
{
Node node = Node.GetCurrent();
string email = null;
do
{
if (node.NodeTypeAlias == NodeTypeAlias)
{
email = node.GetProperty("emailContact").Value;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(email))
break;
}
//node = node.Parent;
//***Need Parent Node here. new Node is asking for Overload.
node = new Node().Parent;
} while(node.Parent.Id > -1);

The original code should do what you are asking with regards to getting the parent node.
node = node.Parent;

Basically, from your code you want to traverse up the tree, across your ancestors, to find a property named "emailContact" that is not IsNullOrEmpty.
I think what you are looking for is a piece of code like this:
var emailContact = CurrentModel.AncestorsOrSelf().Items.Where(n => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(n.GetProperty("emailContact").Value))
Another way would be to get property with the recursive flag set to true like so:
var emailContact = Model.GetProperty("emailContact ", true).Value;
(See this post: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/razor/19005-Recursive-fields-using-Razor-macro?p=1)
On a side not, it looks like you are currently working with Documents and not "content nodes", is this a back office control or a front end control?
Hope this helps

Dex graph database retrieve all nodes and edges

I know how I can output my graph database to a file (like a GraphML file), but I'd rather iterate through the nodes and have them as C# objects because I need to use them elsewhere.
Something like this:
var it = graph.GetNodeIterator();
while (it.HasNext()) {
var node = new MyNodeObject();
//get attributes or whatever
nodeList.Add(node);
}
//nodeList now contains all nodes in a List
I can't find a convenient way to do this and the Dex documentation isn't very helpful. Clearly Dex has some way of doing this because I can easily export to GraphML, but I don't want to export to GraphML and then parse the GraphML into C# objects.

Here is how I do it, not sure if it's the best way though:
//find the type(s) youre looking for based on how you assigned
//them in the first place. you may already know.
var typeIt = graph.FindTypes().Iterator();
while (typeIt.HasNext()) {
//find your types if you dont know
}
//select the types you want. lets say all of your nodes have one of two types,
//which map to attributes 4 and 3.
var select = graph.Select(4);
//union them
select.Union(graph.Select(3));
//start to iterate
var it = select.Iterator();
while (it.HasNext()) {
var next = it.Next();
//map to your own objects using next
}

Umbraco: Get "Last Edits" values from content

In my umbraco project, i require values in the "last Edited" tab, inside C# code.
How can i get those values?
Please Help,
Thanks.

It's quite simple. Here's one way of doing it:
// Assure the query is done to the root node, in this case I was on the root controller.
var recentUpdatedNodes =
Model.Content.DescendantsOrSelf().OrderByDescending(x =>
x.UpdateDate).Take(50);
foreach (var node in recentUpdatedNodes)
{
#node.Name
#node.Url
#node.Id
}

Representing a chain of nodes in a human readable way

I'm trying to represent a subway map type thing that has to be drawn progressively (like its growing).
My code all works perfectly but its unreadable. Basically it's a tree structure with recursive nodes and subnodes and my test code looks like this:
Children.Add(new TrackLine(800));
Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackSpot());
Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackSplitter());
Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackRotate(-45));
Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackColorChange(Color.Red));
Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackLine(100));
Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackRotate(45));
Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children[0].Children.Add(new TrackLine(200));
Does anyone have any suggestions of how to fix that mess?

You're looking for a way to add it to the deepest child that has no children of it's own?
class Node
{
List<Node> children ;
public void addNode( Node newNode )
{
if( children.Count > 0 )
children[0].addNode( newNode ) ; // recursive call
// to ask first child to add newNode to it
else
children.Add( newNode ) ; // just add it to the children list of THIS node
}
}

To make that code more readable I'd use variables with appropriate names (since I don't know your subject domain, mine are probably not appropriate):
Children.Add(new TrackLine(800));
var lineA = Children[0];
lineA.Children.Add(new TrackSpot());
var spotA = lineA.Children[0];
spotA.Children.Add(new TrackSplitter());
var splitterA = spotA.Children[0];
splitterA.Children.Add(new TrackRotate(-45));
var rotateNeg45 = splitterA.Children[0];
rotateNeg45.Children.Add(new TrackColorChange(Color.Red));
var colorRed = rotateNeg45.Children[0];
colorRed.Add(new TrackLine(100));
var lineB = colorRed.Children[0];
lineB.Children.Add(new TrackRotate(45));
var rotatePos45 = lineB.Children[0];
rotatePos45.Children.Add(new TrackLine(200));
var lineC = rotatePos45.Children[0];
Another approach is to use strings as indexes for Children like this:
Children.Add(new TrackLine(800));
Children["lineA"].Children.Add(new TrackSpot());
Children["lineA"].Children["spotA"].Children.Add(new TrackSplitter());
However I probably would not do it because managing the string constants would be a mess on its own and it would probably require changing Children implementation.