How to pass ExpandoObject as Model?

Hello,

iam trying to pass a ExpandoObject as Model to the RazorLightEngineBuilder and always receive:

“InvalidOperationException: Can not resolve a content for the template “{0}” as there is no project set.You can only render a template by passing it’s content directly via string using coresponding function overload”

I dont understand the error in this case. Why do I need to set a project when the model changes? The quick and dirty code iam using:

            var engine = new RazorLightEngineBuilder()
              .UseMemoryCachingProvider()
              .Build();

            string template = "Hello, @Model.Name. Welcome to RazorLight repository";
            dynamic expando = new ExpandoObject();
            expando.Name = "John Doe";

            string result = engine.CompileRenderAsync("templateKey", template, expando).Result;

When switching to a stronglyTyped Model it does work.

Any code samples showing me how to handle “dynamic properties”/ExpandoObject would be great!

Thanks alot!

[jzabroski]

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[smcl]

I don’t know what the original issue was, but with 2.0.0-betaX in master what’s happening is that this method is called:

public Task<string> CompileRenderAsync<T>(string key, T model, ExpandoObject viewBag = null)
{
	return _handler.CompileRenderAsync(key, model, viewBag);
}

Which also fails. What @C0d1ngJammer probably wants (if they are still interested) is the IRazorLightEngine.CompileRenderStringAsync() method, so the original snippet would look like this

var engine = new RazorLightEngineBuilder()
  .UseMemoryCachingProvider()
  .Build();

string template = "Hello, @Model.Name. Welcome to RazorLight repository";
dynamic expando = new ExpandoObject();
expando.Name = "John Doe";

string result = engine.CompileRenderStringAsync("templateKey", template, expando).Result;

Both strongly-typed objects and dynamic work fine in this scenario, I think it can be closed - unless @C0d1ngJammer has any objections?