Discussion on: Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: MVC is Dead, Long Live PTVC

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Replies for: @seangwright I was able to get it working that way. The only thing I haven't been successful at is passing the page into the component as a paramet...

Dave,

The key to the pattern matching is to 'exit early' if the type isn't correct. That was C# will know that in the rest of the View, the type is what you expect

@model ComponentViewModel<YourPageTemplatePropertiesType>

@if (Model.Page is not YourPageType myPage)
{
    return;
}

<!-- from here on, C# knows Model.Page is YourPageType and myPage is safely typecast as YourPageType -->
<vc:your-view-component page="myPage" props="Model.Properties" />

public class YourModelTypeViewComponent : ViewComponent
{
     public IViewComponentResult Invoke(YourPageType page, YourPageTemplatePropertiesType props)
     {
          // ....
     }
}