Hi Connie

You need to include a reference to the cms.dll in your project in order to be able to inherit from Umbraco.Web.Mvc.

Hope this helps.

/Jan

Thanks Jan, I'll give it a try. But I wonder if I'm chasing something that cannot be done.

I created a new Intranet site just over a year ago with Umbraco 6.1.4. It's set to in the umbracoSettings.config. My master template uses Razor for layout. I have several, what I call, mini-apps in the site, pages that display entries in non-Umbraco tables or admin various Intranet applications that are unrelated to Umbraco. Some of these mini-apps are iframed .aspx pages, some of them are .NET userControls, some of the simpler ones are Razor views while the really old ones are iFramed ColdFusion pages.

I need to update/upgrade the older iFramed pages and integrate them into my Umbraco Intranet site. I really want to some day have everything running MVC, the site in general and any mini-apps within the site. I have no problem creating partial views and assigning them to an Umbraco macro, then drop the macro into a page. One such page is a jQuery datagrid that gets its data via an AJAX call to a .NET webservice. I would like to change this so the data comes from a call to a controller.

I know I can create a SurfaceController to get the routing to work, but I haven't figured out yet if this is going to work if the Intranet site is running in WebForms mode instead of MVC mode.

Thoughts?

Back to my original question...

I have this line in my class... public class OpinionsSurfaceController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController

and VS is telling me I'm missing the correct using, it cannot find the Umbraco name space. I added the reference to cms.dll but no change. Do I need cms.dll as well as something else? Do I need all the Umbraco dlls in my references?

Found it. Need to reference umbraco.dll

Also, just for grins, changed the umbracoConfig to Mvc and my site still works. But I cannot seem to use my controller as it throws a 404 error when my AJAX call tries to hit it.

Hi Connie

Aaah, sorry! I just double checked the solution where I checked this earlier today...turns out I messed it up. It was actually the umbraco.dll that I was browsing...not the cms.dll...

My bad - But you managed to figure it out anyway :)

/Jan

Now if I can just figure out why I get a 404 error trying to contact my controller.

I tried various versions of...

"sAjaxSource": "/umbraco/surface/OpinionsSurfaceController/getOpinions",

"sAjaxSource": "/umbraco/surface/Opinions/getOpinions",

"sAjaxSource": "/Opinions/getOpinions",

all give a 404.

Hallelujah! I finally got it to work. Just had to keep trying different variations. I proved I can integrate an MVC mini app in my existing Umbraco installation.

Hi Connie

Sounds good - Do you mind sharing how you got it to work? Others might benefit :)

/Jan

Well, I seem to have run into a snag. I am now trying to add a form to my partial view. Seems I cannot specify the model to go with that form. I need to specify it in the view that calls the partial. Is there a way to do this? perhaps via a property on the macro or ???

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