Does anyone else hate the fact you don't get intellisense when working with Umbraco as most things are dynamic?

I tend to cast Model to DynamicNode and use GetProperty. I've added a few extensions to Dynamic node also to help me out a bit.

I'm Umbraco 6 and lower at the moment so I don't know if this applies to you.

@chrizzle thanks for the tip, I will give it a go!

I just hate Umbraco lol

Strongly typed models are the best way of working with Umbraco I find. We used CodeGen for a long time but started to switch to the Zbu.ModelBuilder package that is shipped with newer releases.

@anth12 I will look in to that also! Haven't done much in Umbraco to be fair. Appreciate all the tips on it though! Normally have to work in Ektron, which if I'm honest I dislike most the time haha

@Conzaroo NP. In the standard views `Content` is dynamic but you can get the `IPublishedContent` item using `Model.Content`

@anth12 Nice one mate, may read in to the documentation a bit more. It does feel quite nice to work in if I'm honest!

They've got the new Model Builder in the latest version. Yet to try it out, but supposed to be a custom model for a Document Type, which means intellisense! 😀

@itsdaniel0 yeah it's the Zbu package that is now a dependency of Umbraco, it works great in conjunction with Property Value Converters.

@anth12 Glad it's not buggy. I've had many problems with Umbraco updates

@conzaroo, I'm completely loving this thread for the Umbraco tips.

@chrizzle I didn't think many actually used it. I've spoke to quite a few devs before that haven't heard about Umbraco.

@conzaroo, yes all I meet is Java devs!

Sitecore looks good as a proper marketing platform but it's just too damn expensive. I recon Umbraco is where it's at for .NET right now.

@chrizzle Ive just started looking at Sitecore for a client. You're right with it being expensive as they charge per server also so it's not one license etc.

I'm going to put they tips into practice with the Umbraco site at work tomorrow 😊

I have only worked on the one
SiteCore project (we took over development from another company) and was not a fan, its now been rewritten i n Umbraco :).

@anth12 hopefully it'll be better now if it's been rewritten 😁 I do like the personalisation that SiteCore has to offer users, and the built in CRM style feeds for tracking users

There was a plugin for Umbraco called spindoctor that took a crack at user profiling, not sure if that made it to 7.

If not, massive gap for a community plugin there.