Concrete Classes and Definitions for Content Types

[deanmarcussen]

A great suggestion from Sebastien on gitter last night that's worth tracking

Someone should add some helper in C# so that we could define a class like MyCustomer.cs which would have content parts and fields as its properties, and be able to register this as a content type definition. So the model would be driven by code. And we could use these classes directly when loading the content items, to get full intellisense in the templates.

@johnrom I think you are the one who showed me we could use fields directly in classes, right? This is the idea, to be able to register a class as a content type, and when we resolve the ContentDefinitionManager they would be there too. So all statically. And yes we can also provide some helper to cast a content item to a class. IT can't be without some custom call as the intellsiense wouldn't know the actual type

@johnrom Your documentation on using Fields in Part Classes was great. Do you think you might work on this feature? I'd be happy to help if you were able to

[johnrom]

My initial thought is:

• ContentItem.As<TContentType extends ContentType>()
• GetContentItemByIdAsync<ContentType>(id)