Hi

I am quite new to MVC and I trying to add a simple form my website based on the “partial view” example (i.e. http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/mvc/forms/turorial-partial-views).

I believe I followed the latter pretty closely but for the past couple of days all I am getting is the error “The type or namespace name 'ContactViewModel' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)” and I was wondering if someone could tell what I doing wrong?

My Platform: Windows 8, Umbraco6.1.4 set up on local IIS (not Express), Visual Studio 2012

My process:

1. Opened the website in VS 2012 and added folders Models and Controllers (not there initially)

2. Added new class ContactViewModel.cs to Models folder (see code below)

Note: When adding the new class to either I got prompted to add it to the App_Code instead but carried on regardless.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

public class ContactViewModel
{
    [Required]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public string Email { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public string Enquiry { get; set; }
}

3. Added new class ContactFormSurfaceController.cs to Controllers folder (source code below)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

public class ContactFormSurfaceController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
{
[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult sendEnquiry (ContactViewModel model)
{
        //model not valid, return current umbraco page

if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return CurrentUmbracoPage();
}

//if validation passes perform whatever logic
//Do something...

//the redirect to 'thank you' page
return RedirectToUmbracoPage(1065);
}

}

4. Using Umbraco backend, I then added a new Partial View (ContactForm.cshtml) with the following code:

@model ContactViewModel
@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<ContactFormSurfaceController>("sendEnquiry"))
{
@Html.EditorFor(x => Model)
<input type="submit"/>
}

5. Lastly I created a new document type and template to display the partial view

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
Layout = "Root.cshtml";
}
@Html.Partial("ContactForm")

Any idea, what I am doing wrong?