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Chris C 43 posts 184 karma points

May 08, 2014 @ 05:44
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umbraco 7 and razor dynamic woes
Hi. I did a test run upgrade to version 7. So I'm not sure if my terminology is correct, but now the razor macros throw exceptions. They fail when accessing custom properties, like - page.CustomProperty.

So here is some sample code that will no longer work.
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@using System.Linq;
@{
    var subpages = CurrentPage.Descendants("umbPage").OrderBy("Name");
    foreach (var page in subpages) {
        string x = page.CustomProperty;   // this line craps out
    } 
 }
```
On version 6, this worked. Is there a different way to do this on 7? Thanks.
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Jeavon Leopold 3074 posts 13632 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

May 08, 2014 @ 11:57
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This looks generally ok, perhaps try changing your variable to being implicit instead of explicit, e.g.
```
var x = page.CustomProperty;
```
Also do you know what the error is?
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Chris C 43 posts 184 karma points

May 08, 2014 @ 17:21

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Thanks Jeavon. I put the "string x" just as an example. The exception happens on page.CustomProperty, and the debugger says that the property does not exist.

I also tried page.Properties["CustomProperty"], but that didn't work either. Did something change with dynamics in Umb7?

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Jeavon Leopold 3074 posts 13632 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

May 08, 2014 @ 20:52

How about doing some checks to see if that changes things?

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@{
    var subpages = CurrentPage.Descendants("umbPage").OrderBy("Name");
    foreach (var page in subpages)
    {
        if (page.HasProperty("CustomProperty") && page.HasValue("CustomProperty"))
        {
            string x = page.CustomProperty; // this line craps out
        }
    }
}

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Chris C 43 posts 184 karma points

May 09, 2014 @ 19:40
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Hmmm, ok. Your first suggestion worked.
```
var x = page.CustomProperty;
```
Then I could call x.ToString() or do whatever I needed.

So it seems like something has indeed changed with the datatypes when I upgraded to 7. The custom properties used to come through as strings.

Thanks again.
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Jeavon Leopold 3074 posts 13632 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

May 09, 2014 @ 20:03
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Lets see what it is then
```
@x.GetType().ToString()
```
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Chris C 43 posts 184 karma points

May 12, 2014 @ 21:29
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```
@x.GetType().ToString()
```
Unfortunately I had to scrap plans to go to version 7 for the time being, because of this and other problems. Will definitely try that when I get a chance though.
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