Hi all, Please could anyone explain me how to create a view and surfacecontroller and then add to a page using partial view macro file.

I have created surface controller code as below

using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using myicCodeProject.Models;

namespace myicCodeProject.Controllers
{
    public class ListSitesController : SurfaceController 
    {
        // GET: ListSites
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            if (Umbraco.MemberIsLoggedOn())
            {
                TempData["test2"] = "member logged in";
            }
            var mysites = new List<SiteModel>();

            var s = new SiteModel();
            s.name = "ABC ltd";
            s.shortname = "Main";
            s.city = "Luton";
            s.postcode = "LL2 4GH";
            mysites.Add(s);

            var s1 = new SiteModel();
            s1.name = "JCob and Sons ltd";
            s1.shortname = "Main";
            s1.city = "Denver";
            s1.postcode = "DB2 4GB";
            mysites.Add(s1);

            var s2 = new SiteModel();
            s2.name = "Desi ltd";
            s2.shortname = "Logistics";
            s2.city = "Necastle";
            s2.postcode = "NW23 4FG";
            mysites.Add(s2);



            TempData["sitelist"] = mysites;
            ViewBag.sites = mysites;
            return View();
        }
    }
}

created model call SiteModel and build the project copy dll file in umbraco web site bin folder.

Then I have created view Index.cshtml in folder ListSites and placed it in Views/Partails/ folder in umbraco web site

this is the code on view

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<myicCodeProject.Models.SiteModel>
@using Umbraco.Web
@using System.Web.Mvc.Html
@if (Umbraco.MemberIsLoggedOn())
{
    var list = new List<myicCodeProject.Models.SiteModel>();
    list = (List<myicCodeProject.Models.SiteModel>)TempData["sitelist"];

    <br />
    @TempData["test2"]

    if (list != null)
    {

        if (list.Count > 0)
        {
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>Name</td>
                    <td>Short name</td>
                    <td>City</td>
                    <td>Post Code</td>

                </tr>
                @foreach (var item in list)
                {
                    <tr>
                        <td>@item.name </td>
                        <td>@item.shortname</td>
                        <td>@item.city</td>
                        <td>@item.postcode</td>

                    </tr>

                }

            </table>
        }
        else
        {
            <p>No Sites to list</p>

        }
    }
    else
    {
        <p>No Sites</p>
    }
}
else
{
    Session.Add("NeedRedirect", Request.Url.ToString());
    { Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Partials/myicCodeProject/icLogin.cshtml", new myicCodeProject.Models.icLoginModel(), new ViewDataDictionary { { "mymsg", "1" } }); }


}

then created partial macro file and call Render Partial method

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
@using myicCodeProject.Models
@using myicCodeProject.Controllers
    @{Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Partials/listSites/Index.cshtml",new SiteModel());}

then i have added macro in to a RTE ina page , but I cannot see any sites listing on the page it says No Sites. that mean controller Index method not reached at all isn't it ?

How to fix this please ?