How to start MVC in umbarco

Hi, How to start Umbraco With MVC, please provide some use-full link for learning ThanksThanksHi Dennis, Umbraco TV access is free or not? Hi Alex, I would like to add, our Umbraco TV channel, there you can find some basic stuff about Umbraco CMS including MVC. https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbrac…

Hi, So i have been moving over from general MVC to Umbraco MVC, but it is a bit different and raised a few questions. 1. How do you do version control? As it is possible to create view files from the admin panel (Decide that only views are made in visual studio or only in admin panel and use visua…

Hi, Hope this is the right place for this topic. I head up a development team at a digital agency in North West England. I'm aware that Umbraco is moving towards using MVC in the future. Most of our developers here are .Net using webforms with no experience of MVC (apart from online tutorials etc).T…

Hi, I am new to Umbraco. In the Documentation section, haven't seen any topic about using MVC Areas in Umbraco. I currently have a number of pages which are using template, partials views and surface controllers and would like to put them into the structure of Areas. Do we have an example of the…

Probably missed a post on this but I remember last year you said you were working on nForum_MVC. Has any progress been made with this at all?   Alan  Here you can find the v7 version: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/collaboration/dialogue JeroenHi Lee, Followed this thread with inter…

I haven't seen this brought up yet (only in some obscure v5 post that was never answered) but what about EditorTemplates. In MVC they live under Views\Shared\EditorTemplates. I've tried to use them but nothing... I'm still new to MVC and Umbraco + MVC but this is something that seems like it would c…

Hi All, Hope all is well, and firstly I would like to thank all the great minds behind the Umbraco project because I sincerely think it's a job well done! When I first started working on Umbraco, there was no hype about MVC, it was a well known architecture, but not applied as rigourously as it migh…

Hi guys,    I'm searching for a Demo Website where I can see entire code made with Umbraco and MVC . Can you give me some suggestion. If it's possible to be Umbraco v6 .  Hi, yes it's possible. Take at look at [https://github.com/jbreuer/Hybrid-Framework-Best-Practices][1] …

Hi, I remember someone mentioning on this forum recently a new pattern or framework Microsoft were bringing out as an alternative to MVC. But now I can't find the post. Does anyone remember what this pattern might be called or can provide a link? Thanks PaulPerhaps you're asking about Web API http:/…

Hello, is anyone able to translate this snippet to MVC / PartialView? @if (Model.Ancestors().Any()) { var imageNode = Library.NodeById(@Parameter.imageId); } This is a snippet for a document type where I pick an image for an article. The issue right now is that the docu…

This document could be helpful if it told you where to put the parts it describes. http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Templating/Mvc/forms Could someone tell me where to create the ViewModel and the SurfaceController. I guess the PartialView goes in the /PartialView directory? Or do the…

Hello there, this might be a novice question. But here we go anyway. The searchpage works as intented, but when the searchQuery is submitted, I need the the controller to do the search "onpageload" if the querystring contains the "SearchWord" - right now, the user needs to click the search button to…

 NavItMvc is a template Mvc partial view that is designed to be used for generating different types of navigation. I created this package to help those developing their own Mvc navigations as a starting guide as I found a lot users asking the same questions on the forum. NavItMvc install…

Guys, Trying to do something simple with mvc in umbraco but kind of lost after doing some stuff.  So here is what I am trying to do: I have a simple one page site it has a master and home view. Home inherits from master.  I am trying to create a search form on the home page.  So I use…

In Umbraco 6, can a mvc controller that extends RenderMvcController live in the project's MVC areas? For example, in my web application project, I created a MVC areas main, and inside main I have the models, views, and controllers. Is it possible to have a loginController : RenderMvcController in t…

Could some one direct me to find out some tutorials to start Umbraco 6 MVC with razor.   Thanks in advanceThank you very much for the information ShashiAlso check this  http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/razor/38465-Setting-up-MVC-website and have a look at the MVC starter kits that i…

Looks like MVC feature of  Umbraco 4.10.1 is based of MVC 3. Any body any idea if it works with MVC4 0 or not?I don't believe so - we had a similar disucssion the other day which may help answer this http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/36072-Umbraco-410-all-mvc-…

Is it possible to use MVC display templates with our MacroPartial views? Typically they would reside in Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates for a normal MVC app. Where would I put them for Umbraco?

I think it should be nice to have a seperate section on this forum for all the MVC related questions. Dave

Hi, I am new to umbraco. how is MVC areas supported in v7.x? I have a number of pages created through Content in backoffice and would like to put them into the structure of MVC Areas. The pages are composed of partial views which in turn generated from various surface controllers.

Hi I need to work on Umbraco 6 with MVC 4 can anybody know about Umbraco 6 with MVC 4, how to integrate umbraco 6 in MVC 4 application, i dont know how to approach can anybody help me on this Thanks Vijayadurga P    hi Thanksfor the reply i have creaed the solution with MVC 4 and inte…

Im trying trying to use umbracoRedirect on a doc type but it doesnt work. Are there any changes to that when using mvc or is it 4.11?Forget it. I was doint totally wrong..

How to integrate MVC in Umbraco platform?Thanks for the valuable answer. We will implement MVC model as per your suggestions.You can have a look at the Hybrid Framework. It has some nice examples: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/hybrid-framework-for-umbraco-v7 JeroenHi IDS Logi…

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone knew if there was a plan for Umbraco to support MVC 5 in the near future. We have a project coming which would benefit from some of the new features in MVC 5 but as far as I'm aware Umbraco currently doesn't support it? Cheers, TomI'd love to have MVC 5 support…

Using VS2012 and new to Umbraco. Q. Is Umbraco an MVC structure or do I need to build a hybred Umbraco / MVC project from empty web in VS 2012? This is all a bit confusing to this nubie although I've been programming .NET for approx 9 years.Hi Kevin, the next version of Umbraco 4.10.0 will add hybr…

My apologies if this is the incorrect location for this post. I am using version 4.11.8 MVC with MVCBridge with my first attempt at MVC 9in Umbraco. I have watch the video under (from 5 to 4 level 2 MVC in Umbraco 4) and have wired up an MVC view.But when running the site I am getting the following…

Hi, Just a quick question about using Umbraco with pure MVC. I was wondering is it possible to create website where pages like Home , contact us , who we are and other contect pages can be created in Umbraco so user can update these pages. And pages like shopping cart, product listing,checkout etc c…

Hi I have just started learning Umbraco. As i am going through this, can anybody help me in providing some link which describes how umbraco is following MVC and what is the right way i should follow for development? Thanks Sunil Mindfire SolutionsThanks Dennis for the links.  Hi Sunil, Since…

I just whant to know if someone else use Telerik KendoUI MVC with umbraco 7 ? I try to making work a MVC call from the kendo Listview to my controler but the call never reach the controller. I am not very familiar with Umbraco particular routing, and meaby is the point here? If you work with kendo,…

Hi What's the best way to 'tidy' post urls for MVC form posts in Umbraco (6)? /umbraco/Surface/<Controller>Surface/Action Just seems so untidy I don't really want it displayed to the user.  As I see it I can use Url re-writing or custom MVC routing. Any recommendations as to the best way…

Can masterpage and usercontrol webforms coexist with mvc razor views, when you change from WebForms render engine to Mvc? Thanks for the link!Hi Jerker, If I understand your question correct you ask if you can mix Webforms and and Razor views. If so you can do it. Take a look on this: http://our.umb…

Is there a "MVC" replacement for AfterRequestInit?  Basically I'm looking for a page load event in which the Umbraco page has already been loaded.  You might need to look at hijacking, I am not sure the event is before the page load, but worth a look   http://our.umbraco.org/docu…

Hi guys I know there is a way to install Umbraco and develop in a MVC achrticture, but the processes of chaniging a file here updating a web configuration file here though it works is a bit long winded.. my question is.. is there a one click way to install umbraco to use visual studio and MVC... say…

Hi.  I have an MVC4 based application which I need to integrate with umbraco under one single web application, but because of different MVC versions I constantly run on errors. Maybe you can give me an advice on how this can be done? I already know that global.asax files need to be merged as we…

If you are Upgrading Umbraco from 7.2.X to 7.2.8 and Upgrading from MVC 4 to MVC 5. Don't do both at the same time. Upgrading MVC 4 to 5 will break the web.config in the views directory, which causes webapi to blow up, so the umbraco installer won't be able to run. You won't have much information…

I am involved in a new project where the client wants to use Umbraco 4.6.1 and MVC 3 together. At the moment all I am trying to do is make a standard install of Umbraco 4.6.1 work with a basic MVC app. I am using IIS7 / Integrated Mode / Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010.   I followed the ins…

We are looking at providing web builder functionality for a client website. We are using Umbraco 7.0.4 with the default rendering engine set to WebForms rather than MVC. Will Contour work under this setup or does it have to be using MVC?...Forgot to add this: However before installing Contour you co…

I want to start my Mvc project with umbraco what is the besics.You can start a new **empty** project in Visual Studio. After that install the latest UmbracoCMS Nugt package and run it. [Link to the documentation][1] [1]: https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Umbraco-Cloud/Set-Up/Working-With-V…

Hi. I have a Umbraco 7 working fine locally in Visual Studio. I have a MVC form working fine as well. However when I upload the MVC form to my web hotel I get the error: Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: No route in the route table matches the supplied values. The error com…

Hi I'm new to U7 MVC and I want to access a URL parameter 'date' in my controller. The URL will have the form http://mydomain.com/image/2014-09-13 where 2014-09-13 is the 'date' parameter. The 'date' parameter will be used to check for existing images. The controller will be used on the 'image'…

Hello, We are planing to switch from webforms to MVC rendering engine. As we have a lot of existing usercontrols developed as webforms we wanted to know if it is possible to reuse them and changing them step by step to MVC? Or do we have to switch all our controls to MVC first? The controls are de…

I am new to Umbraco and MVC.  I previosuly developed lots of web forms applications using another CMS.  We are now converting over to Umbraco 7 and would like to try to use MVC rather than web forms since Umbraco seems to be pushing it more.  So where I am stuck at is how to setup MVC…

   I have followed the steps described in the following article to use Umbraco and MVC together:          http://memoryleak.me.uk/2009/04/umbraco-and-aspnet-mvc.html    I have encountered problems inheriting umbraco templates that contain u…

If you are not the type of developer that likes to put business logic in your views, then the ability to have a controller for you partial view is a must. Block List MVC gives you the ability, to create Surface Controllers, to use when rendering items from a Block List in Umbraco.   For more…

I want to be able to create custom macros for editors outside of Umbraco. I was able to do this previously with WebForms. I found a way to do this, and it works , but I am wondering if the following is a good idea, or if there is a better way of doing this. 1. Create an MVC project 2. Remove re…

I created an empty ASP.NET empty web application and installed Umbraco through nuget. I also added bootstrap to it. Since I installed an empty project, I don't get the controller intellisense (for example, when you right click on the controllers folder in MVC, it gives you the option to add a cont…

Does anyone know if Umbraco is compatible with MVC 5? I've got an Umbraco 6.1.5 project that I'd be interested in upgrading to MVC 5, but I'm not sure if there are any MVC 4 dependencies in Umbraco that would cause breaking changes. Thought it would be a good idea to see if anyone else knew or had t…

I am trying to add some functionality to my existing Umbraco website and I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to try out some asp.net MVC but I can't get it to work. Has anybody managed to achieve this. I needed to add a Global.asax file so that I can set up the routing stuff, but I get an err…

Dear Umbraco Team Could you please advise best practice to intergrate web app with Umbraco ? I have a MVC web app i would like to integrate with Umbraco, it is a MVC C# app making use of Entity Framework & SQL server DB. Thanks Dibs The web app is a simple CRUD application with views for inpu…

I have successfully upgraded my website from Umbraco 4.7 to Umbraco 6. But apparently all my URLs are still the same, they're all with .aspxIs there any guide on how I can convert it to MVC? I just want the pretty URL, such as /About instead of /about.aspxOh that is so cool! Thanks Dawoe!There is al…

Hi everyone, I have been mixing Umbraco with standard MVC for the last couple of problems and it is working perfectly. For me this is the ultimate solution for Umbraco letting you build a proper MVC website mixing standard controllers (i.e. just extend Controller - have nothing to do with Umbraco) a…

I'm trying to get my head around getting MVC type routing... This works fine, and the url looks like: https://(sitename)/currenttimefor/location/51.507222;-0.1275 //This code works perfect RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute( "CurrentTimeForLocation", "currenttimefor/{action}/{latlon}", new …

Hi, 0 down vote favorite I have installed Umbraco 7.2 manually using this guide. I opened the website using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. I was following along with the videos on Umbraco site and when I reached the Developer series, Surface Controllers (more specifically on creating…

Hi, I'm fairly new to umbraco, MVC and C#. I've been struggling to get a form to work with MVC, I'm using ASP.NET and Razor. I searched for answers, but couldn't find it. Here is what I want to do: I'm using a form to search published content by editors, I managed to make it work a bit by doing wh…

Hi Umbraco Community, Firstly, hello, and I look forward to working with Umbraco and contributing too, in the long run. So I wonder if anyone can point me in the direction of a good guide on how to add Umbraco to an existing site developed in MVC. The existing site is a full solution with several…

Hi, I trying to use the Client Dependency Framework with my Umbraco MVC (v6.1.5) website, but it's not working for some reason. In my masterview (master.cshtml) I declared this using statements: @using ClientDependency.Core.Mvc @using ClientDependency.Core And I using this method to comp…

Hi All, I am new to the umbraco. I would like to add my own business logic to Umbraco. For ex: lets say some form to manage Employees. I need to know basics, Is it can be done with Packages ?  Is any body know some thing like "Hello world". I also need to do this with MVC.  Thank you in ad…

Hi, I need to create a form in a U6.1.x  I read this http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Mvc/forms , but I don't understand if is I need VS. Is it possibile to build with Umbraco backoffice editor? Can I use Razor form ( not MVC )? I need to save data into a database and se…

Hi, Newbie here. Looking to convert an existing MVC 4 site to Umbraco. Got a basic site up and running fine in Visual Studio, but want to start importing what we have already. I see the scripts and style sheets will sync in the GUI with the filesystem, but that this doesn't work with Templates/Views…

With Umbraco 4.11.0, would I create a partial and use it as if it were a razor macroscript in the sence that all the calculations and output are created in the one file, or do I have to create a Model, Controler and View? I would just like to find out the best practices for Umbraco and MVC as I'm ha…

Hi, We have an Umbraco 8.1.5 web site that is occasionally crashing on random pages while trying to render any one of a number of different macros. The problem occurs in Umbraco.Web/Mvc/ControllerExtensions.RenderViewResultAsString, which contains this loop: - foreach (var v in vi…

Hi all, I want to use the Umbraco model that i have in  to build a menu in the _layout.cshtml file. The examples that i found was a menu made up in a partial.. Thx for any anwser in advance,EdFor ppl that are interested in this, i'm doing the discussion with Shannon on his blog: http://shazwazz…

Hi all, I have an Umbraco website and I'd like to add a regular MVC page to it. So I've mapped attribute routing, so I can map to my controller actions and it all works fine. public void OnApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)…

Hello all, I'm having problems with Routing my MVC solution. I have set up a "pure" MVC solution with Route-Hijacking and it doesn't seem to be hitting any break points, I've created an ApplicationEventHandler and it doesn't seem to be hitting that or the routeconfig. When opening the page in…

I'm currently working on my first umbraco site using MVC.  I'm trying to convert the templates for my news listing and news article pages.  Usually I would have the article be a child of the listing page so they could share certain content areas. I would normally have the following in my n…