Hello :-)

I'm trying to implement a "View Profile" page using a custom route, controller and model. But can't get it to work :-(

My custom route is:

RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(
                "memberProfileRoute",
                "user/{profileURLtoCheck}",
                new
                {
                    Controller = "ViewProfile",
                    Action = "Index"
                });

My controller is:

public class ViewProfileController : RenderMvcController
{
    public ViewProfileController() : this(UmbracoContext.Current) { }
    public ViewProfileController(UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(umbracoContext) { }

    public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
    {
        string profileURLtoCheck = Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["profileURLtoCheck"].ToString();

        ViewProfileViewModel profile = new ViewProfileViewModel();

        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(profileURLtoCheck))
        {
            var ms = UmbracoContext.Current.Application.Services.MemberService;

            var findMember = ms.GetAllMembers().FirstOrDefault(x => x.GetValue<string>("profileURL") == profileURLtoCheck);

            if (findMember != null)
            {
                profile.Name = findMember.Name;
            }
        }

        return CurrentTemplate(profile);
    }
}

And the model is this:

public class ViewProfileViewModel : RenderModel
{
    public ViewProfileViewModel() : base(UmbracoContext.Current.PublishedContentRequest.PublishedContent) { }

    public string Name { get; set; }
}

This is my View:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<ViewProfileViewModel>
@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Design.cshtml";
}

<h2>@Model.Name</h2>

When I try to navigate to the route e.g. http://www.mysite.co.uk/user/joebloggs I keep getting errors. If I inherit from RenderModel in my model as shown above I get:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

on the constructor, and if I don't inherit from RenderModel I get the following error:

Cannot bind source type ViewProfileViewModel to model type Umbraco.Web.Models.RenderModel

I seem to be going around in circles .... any help would be greatly appreciated.