Umbraco.TypedContent should be available in surface controllers.  Just looking at an example I have - make sure your controller class inherits from SurfaceController and you have a using statment for Umbraco.Web.Mvc.

Hi Andy,

Here's what I tried:

            var lang = umbraco.uQuery.GetNodeByUrl("/");
            var node = Umbraco.TypedContent(lang.Id);
            node.

When I type that . VS Intellisense does'nt give me the "Descendants()" I expect from IPublishedContent. The object type returned is Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent.

I do have the using Umbraco.Web.Mvc; at the top, but VS marks it grey like it's unused.

My class is : public class ProjectsController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController

Now I think in Umbraco pre v6 surface controllers needed the suffix and should thusly be named ProjectsSurfaceController, but is that still valid? This doesn't change my missing "Descendants()" call though...

Anything else I should look for?

Actually here is the full .cs (there is some weird code in there, don't judge haha):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using MyApp.Models;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Web.Models;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using umbraco;
using umbraco.NodeFactory;

namespace MyApp.SurfaceControllers
{
    public class ProjectsController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
    {
        [System.Web.Mvc.HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Index(string expertiseId, string subexpertiseId)
        {
            return Content("ok");
        }

        // [System.Web.Mvc.HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Filter(string id)
        {
            var lang = umbraco.uQuery.GetNodeByUrl("/");
            var projects = lang.GetDescendantNodesByType("Projet");
            var filteredProjects = new List();
            var filterBy = umbraco.uQuery.GetNode(id);

            // var node = Umbraco.TypedContent(lang.Id);

            /*if (filterBy.NodeTypeAlias == "Expertise")
            {
                filteredProjects =
                    projects.Where(
                        x =>
                        filterBy.ChildrenAsList.Any(
                            y => x.GetProperty("expertises").ToString().Contains("" + y.Id + ""))).ToList();
            }
            else if (filterBy.NodeTypeAlias == "Marche")
            {
                filteredProjects =
                    projects.Where(
                        x => x.GetProperty("marches").ToString().Contains("" + id + "")).ToList();
            }
            else if (filterBy.NodeTypeAlias == "SousExpertise")
            {
                filteredProjects =
                    projects.Where(
                        x => x.GetProperty("expertises").ToString().Contains("" + id + "")).ToList();
            }*/

            /*var result = "";
            foreach (var node in filteredProjects)
            {
                result += " " + node.GetProperty("titre").ToString();
            }*/

            return Content("ok");
        }
    }
}

Yes! This is it! Thanks for the help Andy!

Compilation Error

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: CS1061: 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' does not contain a definition for 'PageName' and no extension method 'PageName' accepting a first argument of type 'Umbraco.Core.Models.IPublishedContent' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 396:        
Line 397:                        <li class="@isPageSelected">
Line 398: <a href="@page.Url">@page.PageName</a> Line 399:
Line 400:                            @if (CurrentPage.Children.Where("umbracoNaviHide!= true").Count() > 1 && page.IsAncestorOrSelf(Model.Content))

Source File: c:\Users\ibrahim.tunc\Documents\My Web Sites\UIS\Views\ContentPage.cshtml    Line: 398 

Try page.Name or page.GetPropertyValue<string>("pageName") - the latter if "pageName" is a custom field on your document type.

Andy

You need an @ symbol before page.GetPropertyValue

hi! Andy. Thanks for helps. 

The problem was solved. 

I've added the following code to the top of the code block. 

              @{
                    @*Get the root of the website *@
                    var root = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(2);
                }  

All relevant sections

            <!-- Left Side (Sub Navigation)-->
            <div class="four columns">

                @{
                    @*Get the root of the website *@
                    var root = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(2);
                }                  

                <div class="sideNavTitle" style="margin-left: 10px;">@Umbraco.RenderMacro("CurrentPage")</div>
                <div class="sideNav" style="margin-left: 10px;">

                <ul>
                    @foreach (var page in root.Children.Where("Visible"))
                    {
                    <li>
                        <a href="@page.Url">@page.pageName</a>
                    </li>
                    }   
                </ul>

    <br />
                <br />

                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- End Left Side -->

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