I have a product page where most of the data comes from a CMS but some technical specs for that product comes from an external SQL database. I have been trying to work out how to do this and found this on the forum:
This basically is a simple POCO query which would be perfect, however, it states in the forum post that you need to create a model for the table structure, which is fine and I have done that, put it in the models folder and adding the namespace at the top and the code can't find it (it is the actual using statement which errors)
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Product'
could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly
reference?)
Source Error:
Line 1: @using Product.Models;
The model is:
namespace Product.Models {
public class SKUList{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string PartNumber { get; set; }
public string Tech1 { get; set; }
public string Tech2 { get; set; }
}
}
Can someone please give me an idea of how I create this model and link it so that the code will work? Its one simple query I am needed, to display three variables from the external database on the screen.
Can anybody point me in the right direction here, hopefully, I'm doing something silly?
Are you using Visual Studio to work locally with your project?
And do you have anything else called 'Product' in your solution...
If you call your namespace something more unique eg
namespace CraigP.Product.Models {
that would rule out any clashes with anything else called Product...
But the Model still needs to be compiled, so if you are not using Visual Studio to compile the project code, then try creating a folder called app_code in your project and move your model class into that folder, and then it should 'compile on the fly'...
Accessing External database from a view - help!
Hi,
I have a product page where most of the data comes from a CMS but some technical specs for that product comes from an external SQL database. I have been trying to work out how to do this and found this on the forum:
https://our.umbraco.com/forum/developers/razor/49750-Accessing-external-database-from-partial-view-macro-
This basically is a simple POCO query which would be perfect, however, it states in the forum post that you need to create a model for the table structure, which is fine and I have done that, put it in the models folder and adding the namespace at the top and the code can't find it (it is the actual using statement which errors)
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
The model is:
Can someone please give me an idea of how I create this model and link it so that the code will work? Its one simple query I am needed, to display three variables from the external database on the screen.
Can anybody point me in the right direction here, hopefully, I'm doing something silly?
Thanks.
Hi Craig
Are you using Visual Studio to work locally with your project?
And do you have anything else called 'Product' in your solution...
If you call your namespace something more unique eg
that would rule out any clashes with anything else called Product...
But the Model still needs to be compiled, so if you are not using Visual Studio to compile the project code, then try creating a folder called
app_codein your project and move your model class into that folder, and then it should 'compile on the fly'...regards
Marc
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