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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:15:06+00:00

When I have a Model or ViewModel with values that are sent from the

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When I have a Model or ViewModel with values that are sent from the controller to the View but rendered in such a way that they are not submitted back to the controller when a form is posted, (e.g. a label whose contents is loaded from a data source) what is the preferred way to make those values available to the controller action that handles the POST request?

  1. Should I include hidden fields for everything I want to get back?
  2. Reload the data I need from the data source? (Yikes!)
  3. Use session variables?
  4. Is there another trick that I am unaware of?
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d suggest re-loading it from the data source – that way you can also perform concurrency checks etc. I guess it depends what kind of scenario you are looking at – what sort of a user load are you expecting?

    Based on your new comment above, given the small rate of requests, I’d absolutely go with reloading the data, makes things a lot simpler.

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