Lifetime of ViewBag elements in ASP.net MVC3

Question

When will the values of the ViewBag be flushed or cleared ?

Liselisetta

Answer 1

When you leave the view on subsequent request. ViewBag is created in the controller and it will live until the rendering of the view. In addition to this it is something that I would not recommend you using and replace it with view models.

Odd

Why wouldn't you recommend ViewBag? because of it live until the rending of view ? – Unreconstructed

Because it is much nicer to have a strongly typed ViewModel. Makes testing a lot easier. – Schwa

Strongly type all the things! – Jaggy

Dynamic vs static, it's just a preference thing – Pension

If you want everything dynamic then go and use Ruby on Rails. Us C#'ers like our statically-typed goodness. :) – Shrewish