Hi,

I'm trying to create a simple contact form for a site by following the instructions here https://codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-contact-form-in-umbraco-using-mvc-and-c/

All goes fine until I create the contact.cshtml partial view and Visual Studio throws up lots of errors, most of them are the same.

Here is the model ContactModel.cs :

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace HappyFrog.Models
{
    public class ContactModel
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "Name:")]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [EmailAddress]
        [Display(Name = "Email Address:")]
        public string EmailAddress { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "Message:")]
        public string Message { get; set; }
    }
}

Here is the controller ContactSurfaceController.cs

using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using HappyFrog.Models;
using System.Net.Mail;

namespace HappyFrog.Controllers
{
    public class ContactSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        public const string PARTIAL_VIEW_FOLDER = "~/Views/Partials/Contact/";

        public ActionResult RenderForm()
        {
            return PartialView(PARTIAL_VIEW_FOLDER + "Contact.cshtml");
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
        public ActionResult SubmitForm(ContactModel model)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                SendEmail(model);
                TempData["ContactSuccess"] = true;
                return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();
            }
            return CurrentUmbracoPage();
        }

        private void SendEmail(ContactModel model)
        {
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage(model.EmailAddress, "[email protected]")
            {
                Subject = "Enquiry from" + model.Name,
                Body = "Name: " + model.Name + "\r\n\r\n" +
                "Email address: " + model.EmailAddress + "\r\n\r\n" +
                "Message:\r\n" + model.Message
            };

            SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient()
            {
                Host = "auth.smtp.1and1.co.uk",
                Port = 587,
                EnableSsl = true,
                Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password")
            };
            client.Send(message);
        }
    }
}

And the code in Contact.cshtml in the View\Partials\Contact folder:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<HappyFrog.Models.ContactModel>

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("SubmitForm", "ContactSurface", FormMethod.Post))
{
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    <div class="form-group">
        @Html.ValidationSummary()
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-xs-3">
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Name)
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-9">
            @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name)
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-xs-3">
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.EmailAddress)
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-9">
            @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EmailAddress)
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-xs-3">
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Message)
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-9">
            @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.Message)
        </div>
    </div>
    <button>Submit</button>
}

And finally the errors in Visual Studio:

Error   CS0115  '_Page_Views_Partials_Contact_Contact_cshtml.Execute()': no suitable method found to override   Contact.cshtml  Line 1
Error   CS0246  The type or namespace name 'UmbracoViewPage<>' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Contact.cshtml  Line 1
Error   CS0103  The name 'Context' does not exist in the current context    Contact.cshtml  Line 1
Error   CS0246  The type or namespace name 'UmbracoViewPage<>' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Contact.cshtml  Line 1
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 3
Error   CS0103  The name 'FormMethod' does not exist in the current context Contact.cshtml  Line 3
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 5
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 8
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 13
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 16
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 22
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 25
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 31
Error   CS0103  The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context   Contact.cshtml  Line 34
Warning AD0001  Analyzer 'Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Analyzers.FixAnalyzers.CSharpFixerWithFixAllAnalyzer' threw an exception of type 'System.TypeInitializationException' with message 'The type initializer for 'Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers.FixAnalyzers.FixerWithFixAllAnalyzer`1' threw an exception.'.    CSC 1

All the errors are in the Contact.cshtml partial view

• Site is using Umbraco 7.10.4
• Visual Studio 2017
• I installed Umbraco 7.10.4 into Visual Studio via Nuget into an empty project.
• I didn't use the starter kit Paul mentions in his video as the site

I hope I'm missing something simple.