Orchard Module - How to return strongly typed Model rathen than dynamic from Driver - dynamic

Question

I created a ContactUs module that sends email when user click on Submit button.
Everything works perfectly. However, I am curious if it is possible to return a strongly typed Model rather than dynamic class.
For example, following is my Drivers\ContactUsDriver.cs Display function:
protected override DriverResult Display(ContactUsPart part, string displayType, dynamic shapeHelper)
{
return ContentShape("Parts_ContactUs",
() => shapeHelper.Parts_ContactUs(
Name: part.Name));
}
As you can see, above is returning a dynamic Parts_ContactUs.
Now, here's snapshot of my Views\Parts\ContactUs.cshtml:
#model dynamic
#using (Html.BeginForm("Send", "ContactUs", new { area = "ContactUs" }, FormMethod.Post))
{
<fieldset>
<legend>Contact Us</legend>
<div id="contact-us" class="area">
#Html.TextBox("Name", "")
</div>
<div id="submitArea" class="button">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Message">
</div>
</fieldset>
}
As you can see above the View is bound to #model dynamic. As a result, I have to do following
#Html.TextBox("Name", "")
Is there a way I can bind to Model say ContactUsModel and thus do following instead?
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name)
Particularly, I am interested so I can write a jquery validation with DataAnnotation attribute.

Answer 1

It's perfectly possible. Just provide a desired model type as your first argument when creating a shape:
protected override DriverResult Display(
ContactUsPart part,
string displayType,
dynamic shapeHelper)
{
return ContentShape("Parts_ContactUs",
() => shapeHelper.Parts_ContactUs(typeof(MyClass), Name: part.Name));
}