Comments on: Dynamic Views in ASP.NET MVC 2

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:53:52 +0000

I understand, but I’m just saying how that new way of passing data from the controller/action to the view brings nothing beneficial, except the definition changed a little bit, and you’re spared from defining the model object at the controller/action, while you now have to do it in the view.

I’m frustrated a little because there are tons of problems with a lot of MS components: IE, VS, etc, etc – and instead of spending time fixing them, they invest 300 hours in writing that stupid feature that’s purely syntactic. I learned nothing expect wasting time going through it – while the find-replace box is broken in VS2010 (at least on 2 monitors) and closing individual document in the same IDE is less convinient. WTF?!

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:02:26 +0000

There’s nothing forcing you to use a dynamic view. The point of this article was to showcase a specific use case of when a dynamic view can get you, and maybe help open the doors to finding some new ones. The first example used a partial with a strongly typed view, which seems to be what you wanted, so it’s certainly possible (and in most cases, what you’d want to do).

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:58:53 +0000

Maybe instead spend that time improving the logic of encoding posts, huh?

Totally unnecessary. Instead of typing this:

[% Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl[DynamicViewSample.Models.DateDisplayOptions ]” %]

you have to type this:

[%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl[dynamic]” %]

[%
DateDisplayOptions options = (Model as DateDisplayOptions) ?? new DateDisplayOptions();
%]

not to mention that it’s more confusing now, and that we all have to go through at least one article to understand the new mapping (15+ min). What was achieved? Alternative approach. Time well spent. I’m sure hours spent on developing that could have been used for something more useful. Good job, Guthrie!

By: Monolight

Monolight — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:51:26 +0000

Good Post!
Thanks for sharing this cool action to explain it.
Monolight

By: Thanigainathan

Thanigainathan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:46:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing this good article.

Thanks,
Thani

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