This code should and does work:

PageSettings currentPage = CacheHelper.GetCurrentPage();
Pageid.Text = currentPage.PageId.ToString();

If you are working with your own custom pages outside the content system then you need to make sure you are passing the pageid of the current page in the query string because this determines what CurrentPage is used. Because of this, you can also generally get pageid with code like this:

int pageId = WebUtils.ParseIntFromQueryString("pageid", -1);

-1 here is the default value to return if pageid is not found in the query string params

If you fail to pass the pageid in the query string when navigating away from a content page to a custom page then CurrentPage will resolve to the first page in the site ,ie the home page.

Hope it helps,

Joe

It shows the same content because it resolves the same. As I said if pageid is not passed CurrentPage will default to your first page which is in this case pageid 0. If it was not correctly resolving this you would not see the same content.

My advice is don't put any C# code directly in layout.master. Instead create a user control with your logic an add the user control to layout.master.

In your user control you can get page id like this:

int pageId = WebUtils.ParseIntFromQueryString("pageid", 0);

pass 0 in for the default if its not in the query string since that is your default page.

Still ,it should also work correctly from your user control using:

PageSettings currentPage = CacheHelper.GetCurrentPage();

then using currentPage.PageId.

If the code you have in layout.master is not executing under some circumstances I think there is something else going on to affect it. Try the user control approach.

Hope it helps,

Joe