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Asked: 2026-05-11T04:04:18+00:00

I’ve designed an MVC (in .NET) where the View has no link to the

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I’ve designed an MVC (in .NET) where the View has no link to the Model. It only knows about the Controller. The traditional MVC pattern has all parts communicating with each other. In my case, the Controller is basically a mediator. This keeps any exceptions or logic out of the View. It has zero dependency on the Model. Is this no longer an MVC?

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  1. What you are describing is actually a subset of Model-View-Controller called Passive View.

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    Passive View is yet another variation on model-view-controller and model-view-presenter. As with these the UI is split between a view that handles display and a controller that responds to user gestures. The significant change with Passive View is that the view is made completely passive and is no longer responsible for updating itself from the model. As a result all of the view logic is in the controller. As a result, there is no dependencies in either direction between the view and the model.

    Martin Fowler talks about it in the above link and briefly discusses other variations here.

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