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The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'Sitecore.Mvc.Presentation.RenderingModel', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'X'

I am building a solution with Sitecore 7 and ASP.NET-MVC 3 and trying to use a custom model class as described in this blog post by john west.

I have seen several other questions here on SO reporting a similar error with ASP.NET-MVC (without Sitecore), usually related to passing the wrong type of object in controller code, or there being a configuration error with the \Views\web.config file, but neither seem to be the issue here.

Solution

  • This error can be caused when a controller rendering invokes a controller method which returns an ActionResult object instead of a PartialViewResult. In my case I had a rendering model associated with the layout which I believe Sitecore was trying to pass to my controller rendering.