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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:48:57+00:00

I have a simple web-site. Almost every action takes int toonId as an argument

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I have a simple web-site. Almost every action takes int toonId as an argument (toonId does not equate to the user: one user can own multiple toons).
At the moment I provide that value to every view from controller, and every link and submit button sends this value back to the controller.
This works. I am just looking for an easier way to accomplish this (AOP comes to mind).

I use cookies to persist “favorite/default toon”, and this works fine (used with ActionAttribute, that takes toonId from cookie and passes is to the toonId argument, if toonId wasn’t provided). But I want to support cookie-less sessions as well.

Question: What is an easy way to add ambient variable to the page, without passing it explicitly all over? Such that it would work with cookie-less browsers.

Is Viewstate a way to go (which isn’t supposed to be in the MVC)?
Is server-side session a way to go?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is exactly what session is meant for.

    There is no page lifecycle in asp.net mvc, hence no viewstate.

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