Hey folks,
I'm an old hand at XSLT and my linq skills are lacking too due to being stuck in .net 2.0 until fairly recently. I have been trying to get into the Razor syntax as best as I can. Here's my problem step-by-step (the code follows after).

1. I'm creating a DynamicNodeList from a comma delimitered property - No problems here (perhaps a little clunky but ehh)
2. Checking the DynamicNodes coming in to ensure they're valid - again not a problem here with GetProperty.
3. However upon trying to use a child alias property ie dn.image rather than dn.GetProperty("image") I get the following error:

error CS1061: 'umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNode' does not contain a definition for 'Image' and no extension method 'Image' accepting a first argument of type 'umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNode' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Well anyways, here's my macro code:

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@using umbraco.MacroEngines;
@using System.Linq;

@{
    //Create DynamicNodeList much like a node-set in XSLT
    DynamicNodeList dnl = new DynamicNodeList();
    
    //Split currentPage boxes property to get the box Node IDs 
    foreach(string id in Model.boxes.Split(',')) {
        //Create a DynamicNode based on the node ID found
        DynamicNode dn = new DynamicNode(id);

        /*Do some validation to ensure the node has the property required:
         * 1. is the node not null
         * 2. Does the node has a title property & more importantly does it have a value?
         *  a. should this be replaced with dn.Title?
         * 3. Do the same with the "image" property
         */ 
        
        if (dn != null && (dn.HasProperty("title") && dn.GetProperty("title").Value.Length > 0) && (dn.HasProperty("image") && dn.Image != 0))
        {
            //Everything cushdy? alright add it.
            dnl.Add(dn);
        }
   }
}

@if (dnl.Items.Count > 0)
{
    //This will output each valid node in an unordered list eventually.
    @dnl.Items.Count;
}

I have a few questions regards this. Is there a better way to make a DynamicNodeList using Linq. But more importantly where's my understanding gone wrong so that dn.Title doesn't work? (please note: in both cases title & image are lower case as property alias.

I want to get to know Razor and I've been scan reading blog posts for the past few hours.

Jamie