Hi, I have some good development experience but am new to Umbraco and C# web apps and have inherited a project and repo from another team.

The project is running (without the errors below) on the clients PROD url and there is also an STG url hosted by two separate azure web apps services. These instances originally pointed to the same DB but I duplicated it and pointed STG to the new copy so I could freely test changes.

version info: UmbracoCms version 7.2.4 UmbracoForms version 4.1.4

I am able to build from the repo however when loading a page that includes an Umbraco Forms template the template section is not displayed and instead I see this error message:
Error loading Partial View script (file: ~/Views/MacroPartials/InsertUmbracoForm.cshtml)

At the same time this is generated in the App_Data/UmbracoTraceLog.txt

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The file mentioned in the first line InsertUmbracoFrom.cshtml is just:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage


@if (Model.MacroParameters["FormGuid"] != null)
{
var s = Model.MacroParameters["FormGuid"].ToString();
var g = new Guid(s);

Html.RenderAction("Render", "UmbracoForms", new {formId = g});
}

The path (drive) for the file in the second line does not exist on my local machine or in the ftp path of the azure web app.

Also when I am testing locally using the debugger I see two exceptions as it is trying to load that page.

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When loading the forms interface in the backoffice the Visual Studio debugger opened a find file dialog and was looking for RecordController.cs however I have not been able to find this file. Subsequent loading in the back office has not prompted this dialog box however the forms list does not show the all the forms that are visible from the running instance in STG. (I pointed my local instance to the STG DB)

I believe this find file dialog might have appeared for the front end exception as well but I was confused and did not note the file name, I do not know how to 'reset' that 'warning' to see what file it was looking for, I believe it might have been an Umbraco Forms controller.

The attempt to build from the repo and re-deploy was spurred by needing to make a change to the form entries export controller. I was actually able to make that change (on a different branch), build, and test it; since testing that api endpoint did not require me to load the front end or backoffice.

These errors seem to be related to Umbraco Forms files and not the previously written custom code, but I am not sure.

Is it possible to recompile controllers (or other cs source) downloaded from the azure web apps instance? I believe I cannot do this because I could not find the source in the ftp path.

I would like to get some paid support but the client is still looking for their support/license information.