Hi,

Following the official documentation at https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/routing/custom-controllers I am attempting to build a custom controller which returns a custom view model.

Here is my view model

public class HomePageViewModel : ContentModel
{
    public HomePageViewModel(IPublishedContent content) : base(content)
    {
    }  

    public string Heading { get; set; }
}

and here is my controller

        public override ActionResult Index(ContentModel model)
    {
        var vm = new HomePageViewModel(model.Content)
        {
            Heading = model.Content.Value<string>("heading")
        };

        return CurrentTemplate(vm);
    }

This works as expected but i was wondering whether it is possible to make the contentModel into the type of the model generated by models builder so instead of using model.Content.Value

I know in v7 when looping through children you could cast to the model type but i was wondering if its possible in the scenario ? I attempted to implement by casting using the bottom suggestion in this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34324608/umbraco-cast-ipublishedcontent-type-to-custommodel-type

I have a core project and .web project. I have used the models builder tool to generate the models into my .core project which is where my controller resides.

Is the model.Content.Value

TIA