Hi

I’ve got a clean asp.net mvc website that I would like to move to Umbraco. I thought that it would be easy – just add some routing, inherit from SurfaceController and bam...that’s it.

All views render as expected but I can’t get nodes from Umbraco from my SurfaceController. Can it be because I’m using custom routing?

So here's what I got.

First I added custom routing to Umbraco:

public class StartupHandler : Umbraco.Core.IApplicationEventHandler
{
    public void OnApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(
            "recipe",
            "recipe/{action}/{url}",
            new
            {
                controller = "Recipe",
                action = "Index",
                url = UrlParameter.Optional
            });
    }

    public void OnApplicationInitialized(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
    }

    public void OnApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
    }
}

Then I changed my controllers to inherit from SurfaceController:

public class RecipeController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
{
    public RecipeController() : this(UmbracoContext.Current)
    {
    }

    public RecipeController(UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(umbracoContext)
    {
    }
}

Even though I got the UmbracoContext I can’t get any nodes. All return null. Any ideas?

Umbraco version 7.15