The 'inherits' keyword is not allowed when a 'model' keyword is used

Question

Hi I am trying to call RazorEmail Template from my Controller as below

 public EmailResult TestEmail(EmailModel model)
    {
        To.Add(model.Email);
        From = "[email protected]";
        Subject = "Testt Mail";
        return Email("EmailTemplate", model);
    }

in view my Template is Under

~/Views/Template/EmailTemplate.html.cshtml 

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage

@model W2G.Models.EmailModel

First when I trying to access I have following error

The view must derive from WebViewPage, or WebViewPage<TModel>.

I got the solutions from here https://mcmap.net/q/268523/-the-view-must-derive-from-webviewpage-or-webviewpage-lt-tmodel-gt

But now I am getting this error . Please kindly help me . It took my lots of time

Zielinski

try @inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<W2G.Models.EmailModel> – Littlefield

@KhanhTO I have tried it but now I have this error "The view must derive from WebViewPage, or WebViewPage<TModel>." – Zielinski

did you declare the generic type <W2G.Models.EmailModel>? – Littlefield

Are you using it inside of MVC or its external class which use razor? – Joh

It's a external ActionMailer.Net.Mvc class which I am using – Zielinski

@can you share class Email? – Joh

@VolodymyrBilyachat It's ActionMailer DLL you can download from nuget – Zielinski

@Dilip0165 got it, i just post answer can you check it? if it does not help then i will try to do it when back home – Joh

Answer 1

If you use view in mvc scope @inherits is equivalent of @model

Generally speacking when you use

@inherits MyWebViewPage<dynamic>

this means that your @Model variable will be of class dynamic same would be if you use

@model dynamic

I dont have all view of you project and implementation but try to remove inherits (it should get it from web.config which you hold in Views folder)

But when you are using outside (so razor cant read you web.config) you should specify base class

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<W2G.Models.EmailModel>

read this article please

Joh

or somewhere in your cshtml file you have written "@model" instead of "@Model" – Gherkin

The code above did properly use "@model". This solution works perfectly well. +1. – Jessalyn