Hi,

New to Umbraco so built a contact form with a tutorial. When I deployed the site to Azure the first time (with an sdf database sitting in AppData) I got the error "cannot bind source type to model type". I managed to fix it by changing ModelsBuilder.ModelsMode to AppData in the web.config file and it works fine.

As an exercise I then created a second web app in Azure but moved the database to Azure's sql database. Connection string works, but I get the same error "cannot bind source type to model type" now that I can't seem to fix.

I'm not sure why I'm getting the error (i.e. what I've coded that causes the issue) but also how to fix it.

I understand the error is due to my contact form. Here's the code. Any help appreciated

Html.Action("ShowForm", "ContactSurface")

Contact form partial view

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<EsportsGold.standardwebsite.ContactModel>
@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<EsportsGold.standardwebsite.ContactSurfaceController>("HandleFormPost"))

{
    <div id="contactForm">
        <label for="emailFrom"></label>@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Email, new { @class = "emailFrom", placeholder = "Your Email" })
        <br />
        <label for="contactName"></label>@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Name, new { @class = "contactName", placeholder = "Name" })
        <br />
        <label for="contactTopic"></label>@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Topic, new { @class = "contactTopic", placeholder = "Topic" })
        <br />
        <label for="contactText"></label>
        <br />
        @Html.TextAreaFor(x => x.Message, new { @class = "contactText", placeholder = "Message" })
        <br />
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </div>
}

ContactSurfaceController

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;

namespace EsportsGold.standardwebsite
{
    public class ContactSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {

        public ContactSurfaceController()
        {
        }

        public ActionResult ShowForm() {
            ContactModel myModel = new ContactModel();
            List<SelectListItem> ListOfGames = new List<SelectListItem>();
            XPathNodeIterator iterator = umbraco.library.GetPreValues(1089);
            iterator.MoveNext();
            XPathNodeIterator preValues = iterator.Current.SelectChildren("preValue", "");
            while (preValues.MoveNext()){
                string preValue = preValues.Current.Value;
                ListOfGames.Add(new SelectListItem {
                    Text = preValue,
                    Value = preValues.Current.GetAttribute("id", "")
                });
                myModel.ListOfGames = ListOfGames;
            }
            return PartialView("ContactFormView", myModel);
        }


        public ActionResult HandleFormPost(ContactModel model){

            var newComment = Services.ContentService.CreateContent(model.Name + " - " + DateTime.Now, CurrentPage.Id, "ContactForm");
            newComment.SetValue("umbracoNaviHide", false);
            newComment.SetValue("emailFrom", model.Email);
            newComment.SetValue("contactName", model.Name);
            newComment.SetValue("contactText", model.Message);
            newComment.SetValue("contactTopic", model.Topic);

            Services.ContentService.SaveAndPublishWithStatus(newComment);
            return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();
        }
    }    
}