Hi folks,

I understand that what I'm asking here might be outside what this forum is all about but I'm stuck (well I never really got started) and will try anything!!

I've got an Umbraco v7.2.4 install and I'm trying to display some data on a template using MVC but I cannot get it to work. So apologies for the long winded post but I thought that I'd better give you everything.

In my Models I've got:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace SxWhite.Models
{
    public class CoursesViewModel
    {
        public int iNodeID { get; set; }
        public string CourseTitle { get; set; }
        public string CourseDesc { get; set; }
    }
}

In my controller: *Ultimately I need to populate this 'list' from my Content in Umbraco but that's another matter!

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
namespace SxWhite.Controllers
{
    public class CoursesController : SurfaceController
    {
        //
        // GET: /Courses/
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            var courses = new List<CoursesViewModel>
            {
                new CoursesViewModel {iNodeID=1, CourseDesc="Description 1", CourseTitle="Title 1"},
                new CoursesViewModel {iNodeID=2, CourseDesc="Description 2", CourseTitle="Title 2"}
            };
            return PartialView("courses", new CoursesViewModel());
        }
    }
}

My view:

@model SxWhite.Models.CoursesViewModel
@Html.DisplayTextFor(m=> m.CourseDesc)
@Html.DisplayFor(m=> m.CourseDesc)
<h1>HELLO</h1>

And in my template I'm calling it with:

@Html.Action("Index", "Courses")   

I'm not getting an error at all but nothing is being displayed on the page and I'm just going round in circles.

Any help would be massively massively massively appreciated.

thanks,

Craig