Chapter 19. Lightweight controllers
This chapter covers
- Using lightweight controllers to simplify programming
- Managing common view data without filter attributes
- Deriving action results to apply common behavior
- Using an application bus
Do you remember those swollen and unwieldy Page_Load methods in Web Forms? Those methods can quickly grow out of control and stage a revolt against your code base.
Controller actions are dangerous too. Nestled snugly between the model and view, controllers are an easy place to put decision-making code, and they’re often mistaken for a good place to put that logic. And it’s quite convenient, at first. It just takes two lines of code to build a select list in an action method. And adding a filter attribute ...
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