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MVC URL formatting/design

In refactoring a lot of MVC code, I have run into an issue with my URL design. For example, let's say we have a Venue object public class Venue { public long ID { get; set; } public ...
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MVC : Does Code to save data in cache or session belongs in controller?

I'm a bit confused if saving the information to session code below, belongs in the controller action as shown below or should it be part of my Model? I would add that I have other controller methods ...
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Is MVC ever considered/applied system-wide?

I was having a discussion with a colleague and he bought up the topic of MVC and the use of ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC. The discussion was that, in an n-layer architecture, the UI, Business Layer and ...
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Why is using named routes for generating outbound URLs a violation of Separation of Concerns?

What is separation of concerns? In computer science, separation of concerns (SoC) is the process of breaking a computer program into distinct features that overlap in functionality as little ...
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Implementing a Service Layer with MVC4 while honoring Single Responsibility

I'm trying to learn some best practices while I ramp up on MVC4. I have a solution with three projects: Web: MVC stuff Core: Data Model Tests: Testing classes I'm now trying to add: Services: ...
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MVC exposes database primary keys?

I'm going through a MVC tutorial, and I notice that convention seems to be to expose a tables primary key on detail pages/urls (ie. /Movies/Details/5 as an example from the tutorial). It's obviously ...
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1answer
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MVC 3 Page design; split pages into Many partials?

I am currently working on an MVC 3 Web app project where I need to display a lot of information on the front page. I am relatively new at web page layout and design so I have hit a wall in terms of ...
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1answer
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Newbie ASP.NET developer being forced into MVC4 with WebForms

I recently got hired on as a new ASP.NET developer (C# code behind). When I arrived, I was told that they were moving to MVC 4, and so I bought two books on that. However, the other day I learned ...
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Implement service layer in MVC

We have a defined service layer hosted in WCF. We are now building a website that will need to use the services functionality. The website is being written in ASP.NET MVC 4 and I'm trying to decide ...
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1answer
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Modular enterprise architecture using MVC and Orchard CMS

I'm making a large scale MVC application using Orchard. And I'm going to be separating my logic into modules. I'm also trying to heavily decouple the application for maximum extensibility and ...
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ASP.NET MVC Controller separation best practices [closed]

I am very new in ASP.NET MVC and Web stuff. I want to know how I should separate my page logic into different controllers. Like for example should I use Home\BuyProduct or Product\Buy. When there is a ...
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MVC, when to separate controllers?

I'm starting with MVC and have a newbie question. What would be the logic criteria to define what a controller should encompass? For example, say a website has a 'help' section. In there, there are ...
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What are some useful things you can do with Mvc Modelbinders?

It occurs to me that the ModelBinder mechanism in ASP MVC public interface IModelBinder { object BindModel(System.Web.Mvc.ControllerContext controllerContext, System.Web.Mvc.ModelBindingContext ...
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Using alternative MVC framework

I am new to ASP.NET MVC and EF. I read about open source implementations of MVC pattern like Spring, FubuMVC, Castle etc. I want to know how flexible these alternatives are when compared with ASP.NET ...
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3answers
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Is there a canonical resource on ASP.NET MVC ?

I want to learn ASP.NET MVC. I have a solid background in asp.net web forms. Are there any resources that you can recommend to help me make the change? I'm ideally looking for videos which touch on ...
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Need recommendation for transferring ASP.NET MVC skills to PHP

I am looking to translate my skills in .NET to PHP - specifically in regards to ASP.NET MVC. At work I am currently using .NET MVC 2.0 on a variety of projects and thoroughly enjoy the platform. ...
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MVC Pattern, ViewModels, Location of conversion

I've been working with ASP.Net MVC for around a year now and have created my applications in the following way. X.Web - MVC Application Contains Controller and Views X.Lib - Contains ...