Question

‘Add’ and ‘Edit’ views are typically more or less identical. How can I reuse a View so that Foos/Add and Foos/Edit/[Id] both use it? What would the actions look like?

Thanks

Answer 1

Simply specify the view name when calling the View() method like

public ViewResult Add() {
  //...
  return View("Foo");
}

public ViewResult Edit(int id) {
  //...
  var model = repository.get(id);
  return View("Foo", model);
}

Your view will have to handle null/empty model values for the Add action or you could populate your model with default values.