Glass and TDS makes our development life easier so we should try and use every feature we can. Right? One of my favorite features is generating a list of Glass models instead of GUIDS. A lot of you probably know this, but there is always times where someone does not. I wanted to document this so this can help others.

Select the field that is a Treelist or whatever multi list field.

In the properties under Code Generation you need to specify the type of list you want returned with model.

In my case:

type=IEnumerable<Feature.SectionLink.Models.sitecore.templates.Feature.SectionLink.SectionLink>.

Now Glass will auto generate and you will get the actual Glass Item Model instead a list of GUIDS.

[SitecoreType(TemplateId=ISectionLinksConstants.TemplateIdString)]

public partial class
SectionLinks  : GlassBase, ISectionLinks

       {

///
<summary>

 /// The Section List field.

            ///
<para></para>

                           ///
<para>Field Type: Treelist</para>          

                           ///
<para>Field ID: e09af999-37fa-42a3-98b7-1ffb802413c2</para>

                           ///
<para>Custom Data: type=IEnumerable<Feature.SectionLink.Models.sitecore.templates.Feature.SectionLink.SectionLink></para>

                           ///
</summary>

                           [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute(“Team Development for Sitecore – GlassItem.tt”, “1.0”)]

                           [SitecoreField(ISectionLinksConstants.Section_ListsFieldName)]

                           public
virtual
IEnumerable<Feature.SectionLink.Models.sitecore.templates.Feature.SectionLink.SectionLink> Section_Lists  {get; set;}

       }

In my controller I just call it this way and I have my list to run through the ForEach:

viewModel = sitecoreservice.Cast<ISectionLinks>(Sitecore.Context.Item,inferType:true).Section_Lists.ToList();

So that is it. Let me know if there is something else we can do with this property. I would like to know.