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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:54:10+00:00

I’m using a few (2 or 3) master pages in my ASP.NET MVC application

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I’m using a few (2 or 3) master pages in my ASP.NET MVC application and they must each display bits of information from the database. Such as a list of sponsors, current fundings status etc.

So my question was, where should I put these master-page database calling code?

Normally, these should goes into its own controller class right? But then that’d mean I’d have to wire them up manually (e.g. passing ViewDatas) since it is out of the normal routing framework provided by the MVC framework.

Is there a way to this cleanly without wiring ViewData passing/Action calls to master pages manually or subclassing the frameworks’?

The amount of documentation is very low… and I’m very new to all this including the concepts of MVC itself so please share your tips/techniques on this.

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  1. One way to do this is to put in the masterpage view the hook for the ViewData and then you define a BaseController : Controller (or multiple base classes) where you do all the db calls you need.

    What you wanna do is quite the same thing described in this articles.

    I hope this helps!

    Regards

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