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Mike Rowe 9 posts 109 karma points

Feb 18, 2016 @ 18:00
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The type or namespace name 'MyFirstForm' could not be found

Installing umbraco

Umbraco 7
I'm new to Umbraco and all associated technologies. It is for that reason, I find the tutorials very valuable. I have followed the instructions in the tutorial in Documentation=>Getting Started=> Code =>Creating Forms, very carefully.

I have a document called "Generic" that uses the view (GenericContactForm.cshtml) that loads the Partial View:
```
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
Layout = null;
}
@using MyFirstForm.Models;
   @{
    Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Partials/ContactForm.cshtml", new ContactFormViewModel());
}
```
However, in spite of meticulously following these directions, I get the following error when calling http://localhost/generic:
```
Server Error in '/' Application.

Compilation Error 
  Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. 

 Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'MyFirstForm' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 3:     Layout = null;
Line 4:  }
Line 5:   @using MyFirstForm.Models;
Line 6:   
Line 7:  @{
Source File: c:\ESC_Test\ESCProject\Views\GenericContactForm.cshtml    Line: 5 
```
I'm using Umbraco 7.4 Thanks in advance for any help to solve this. Once corrected, I will suggest an update to the otherwise great tutorial if appropriate.

Thank you
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Kasper Holm 47 posts 180 karma points

Feb 18, 2016 @ 19:34
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Hello Mike

I think you need to change
```
@using MyFirstForm.Models;
```
to your projects namespace, maybe something like ESCProject.Models ? :)
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Mike Rowe 9 posts 109 karma points

Feb 18, 2016 @ 20:04
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Thank you for the prompt reply. I did change from MyFirstForm.Models to ESCProject.Models. This resulted in a slight improvement in that ESCProject (my Visual Studio project name) was recognized but "Models" was not:
```
    Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Models' does not exist in the namespace 'ESCProject' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 3:     Layout = null;
Line 4:  }
Line 5:   @using ESCProject.Models;
Line 6:   
Line 7:  @{

Source File: c:\ESC_Test\ESCProject\Views\GenericContactForm.cshtml    Line: 5 
```
The path to the Models folder is below the ESCProject folder: C:\ESC_Test\ESCProject\Models\ContactFormViewModel.cs

yet "Models" is not recognized. I'm using VS 2012 with Umbraco 7.4

Again, thanks in advance. Mike
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Kasper Holm 47 posts 180 karma points

Feb 19, 2016 @ 05:54

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Hey Again mike

Can i see your ContactFormViewModel.cs please ?

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Mike Rowe 9 posts 109 karma points

Feb 19, 2016 @ 15:14

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace ESCProject.Models
{
    public class ContactFormViewModel
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public string Message { get; set; }
    }
}

Thanks for taking the time.

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Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Mar 28, 2016 @ 15:28

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Hi Mike,

Did you build your solution?

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Gordon 15 posts 96 karma points

Mar 27, 2017 @ 11:14

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I'm getting the same error, "The type or namespace name 'IDoctype' could not be found" where 'Doctype' is the name of one of my doc types.

This is the error when I try and build the VS solution. It reports the same for other models too.

I also can't log into the CMS anymore - the error is "Could not load file or assembly 'Umbraco.ModelsBuilder' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

No idea what's causing this, except that I just did a rebuild of the Models in the CMS. I'm using DLL version.

Any thoughts...?

Thanks

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