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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:06:53+00:00

We are adding tooltips to our ASP.NET MVC product, and we are getting the

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We are adding tooltips to our ASP.NET MVC product, and we are getting the text from our database (technically, from a cached copy of the data). To do so, we created an Html Helper method:

<%=Html.Tooltip(Model.GetTooltipText(Tooltips.ClientPage.StartDateId))%>

The GetTooltipText method is in our BaseViewModel, and simply uses the passed in Id to fetch the tooltip from cache.

Would this be considered a bad design? What other alternatives would we have?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Its probably a better idea to grab all the Tooltip’s in one hit and put them in some sort of strongly-typed collection (perhaps a Dictionary<id,string>), cache all of that in your service layer.

    Then you could put this in a ViewModel and pass it through to your strongly-typed view.

    In your View you could simply access that strongly-typed collected via the Model based on the unique key?

    I.e.

    <%: Model.Tooltips[SomeDateId] %>
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