Question

What is the best way to pass random data from a view to a controller.

I have a number of views that are identical except for a few pieces of state information. instead of creating a page for each webpage, I want to have one page and I just pass over these variables dynamically.

Answer 1

Although not the “recommended” approach, you can make your action method accept a FormCollection as the parameter. You can then write your own logic to pull whatever data you need from that object. Basically the FormCollection will contain all fields inside the form that is posted as a key-value pair.

The signature would look like this:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult Index(FormCollection form)
{
  // logic here to 
}