Hi!

I'm trying to implement a non-Umbraco-based controller in an Umbraco project. The reason for it to not inherit from an Umbraco controller is that it's not dependent on any content within Umbraco.

I have this controller:

public class SearchController : System.Web.Mvc.Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index(string query)
    {
        SearchViewModel viewModel = Search(query);
        return View(viewModel);
    }
}

I also have a rule set up so that I actually hit my action method when navigating to /Search?query=foo+bar.

My view (~/Views/Search/Index.cshtml) defines that SearchViewModel should be model, but still I get the following exception:

Cannot bind source type MyNamespace.SearchViewModel to model type Umbraco.Web.Models.RenderModel.

Does my model really need to inherit from RenderModel for this to work?

Thanks. /Viktor