No images in excerpt

[afilipek3]

First of all thank you for making such a compact, easy blog! I've been trying to put a preview image in the excerpt section but it just pastes it into the body of the post instead. I'm not sure if this is an issue exactly, but is there anyway to have images on the preview part of the posts where it usually just shows the excerpt?

[kershnerd]

I also need this... There should be an optional intro image property on the Post Model. I have tried to figure this out, but it is beyond me.

[m1kjay]

I don't know if this is helpful at all, but I ran into this issue and added a helper function to post.cshtml to get the source of the first image in the post. Invoked using @MarkupHelper.GetPic(Model.Content):

@functions{
    public class MarkupHelper
    {

    public static System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument GetDoc(string markup)
    {
    try
    {
    StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(markup);
    System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument xPathdocument;
    using (System.Xml.XmlReader xmlReader = System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(stringReader,
    new System.Xml.XmlReaderSettings() { ConformanceLevel = System.Xml.ConformanceLevel.Fragment }))
    {
    xPathdocument = new System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(xmlReader);
    }
    return xPathdocument;
    }
    catch
    {
    System.Xml.XmlReader xmlReader = System.Xml.XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(""));
    return new System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(xmlReader);
    }
    }

    public static string GetPic(string markup)
    {

    System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator nav = GetDoc(markup).CreateNavigator();
    System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator node = nav.SelectSingleNode("//img/@src");

    return node == null ? "" : node.Value;
    }
    }
    }

[write2akhilr]

@m1kjay This is awesome, I was figuring on server side how to extract single image to use in OffCanvas theme.
My bit if there is no image found then don't show blank image icon at all:

@if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(MarkupHelper.GetPic(Model.Content))!=null && MarkupHelper.GetPic(Model.Content).ToString()!="")
{
<img [email protected](Model.Content) />
}