Lifetime of ViewBag elements in ASP.net MVC3

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When will the values of the ViewBag be flushed or cleared ?

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '11 at 12:10

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When you leave the view on subsequent request. ViewBag is created in the controller and it will live until the rendering of the view. In addition to this it is something that I would not recommend you using and replace it with view models.

answered Jul 28 '11 at 12:10

Darin Dimitrov

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Why wouldn't you recommend ViewBag? because of it live until the rending of view ? – Saad Jul 28 '11 at 12:42
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Because it is much nicer to have a strongly typed ViewModel. Makes testing a lot easier. – Dismissile Jul 28 '11 at 13:19
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Strongly type all the things! – John Farrell Jul 28 '11 at 13:32
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Dynamic vs static, it's just a preference thing – BlackTigerX Jul 28 '11 at 13:55
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If you want everything dynamic then go and use Ruby on Rails. Us C#'ers like our statically-typed goodness. :) – RPM1984 Jul 29 '11 at 09:53

Lifetime of ViewBag elements in ASP.net MVC3

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