Question

In the “Admin” area of my application, an object must be available in ViewData on every page (for display in the Master template). I have already inherited from Controller, so I cannot make a simple base class that handles it. What is a good solution of doing this when not using inheritance? An ActionFilter seems interesting but I don’t want to put it on every controller in the Admin area. I’m considering the following:

• Custom ControllerFactory that detects Area as well
• Application_BeginRequest(), though I have no knowledge on executing controller then.

Maybe you have a better solution?

Answer 1

In this case I would create a separate action that executes a partial view that shows the data you need. In my opinion this is the most clean solution for this kind of problem and it’s easily testable and reusable.