Orchard CMS rendering parts outside of admin section - asp.net-mvc-3

Question

I am working on a module by following the instructions here http://orchardproject.net/docs/Creating-a-module-with-a-simple-text-editor.ashx
The one change I want to do is, rendering the product creation outside of admin module. So I created homecontroller like this
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public HomeController(IContentManager cm) {
ContentManager = cm;
}
private IContentManager ContentManager { get; set; }
public ActionResult Index() {
return Content("This is index");
} [Themed]
public ActionResult Create()
{
var product = ContentManager.New("Product");
var model = ContentManager.BuildEditor(product);
return View((object) model);
}
and a file routes.cs in the root folder
public class Routes : IRouteProvider
{
public void GetRoutes(ICollection<RouteDescriptor> routes)
{
foreach (var routeDescriptor in GetRoutes())
routes.Add(routeDescriptor);
}
public IEnumerable<RouteDescriptor> GetRoutes()
{
return new[] {
new RouteDescriptor {
Priority = 5,
Route = new Route(
"commerce",
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "SimpleCommerce"},
{"controller", "Home"},
{"action", "Index"}
},
new RouteValueDictionary(),
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "SimpleCommerce"}
},
new MvcRouteHandler())
},
new RouteDescriptor {
Priority = 6,
Route = new Route(
"commerce/Create",
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "SimpleCommerce"},
{"controller", "Home"},
{"action", "Create"}
},
new RouteValueDictionary(),
new RouteValueDictionary {
{"area", "SimpleCommerce"}
},
new MvcRouteHandler())
}
};
}
}
So how should I move from here onwards to render this whole thing together when I navigate to url http://localhost:35713/commerce/create
But it throws an error saying create view didnt find. Then I created a view (create.cshtml) in Views/Home folder
#model SimpleCommerce.Models.ProductPart
<fieldset>
<label class="sub" for="Sku">#T("Sku")</label><br />
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Sku, new { #class = "text" })<br />
<label class="sub" for="Price">#T("Price")</label><br />
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Price, new { #class = "text" })
</fieldset>
Now it throws an error saying
The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'IShapeProxyedcfa08c61cf49898dc2e77bde025039', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'SimpleCommerce.Models.ProductPart'.

Answer 1

Oh, that's cross-posted. BuildEditor is creating a shape, and your template is expecting a strongly-typed model. Dropping the #Model directive should substitute that problem with another (which is that you won't be able to use the Lambda-based helpers with shapes.