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    copied!<p>I've just finished my first ASP.NET MVC (2) CMS. Next step is to build website that will show data from CMS's database. This is website design:</p> <p><a href="http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4676/portal.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4676/portal.gif http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4676/portal.gif</a></p> <p><br> <strong>#1 (Red box)</strong> - displays article categories. ViewModel:<br></p> <pre><code>public class CategoriesDisplay { public CategoriesDisplay() { } public int CategoryID { set; get; } public string CategoryTitle { set; get; } } </code></pre> <p><strong>#2 (Brown box)</strong> - displays last x articles; skips those from green box #3. Viewmodel:<br></p> <pre><code>public class ArticleDisplay { public ArticleDisplay() { } public int CategoryID { set; get; } public string CategoryTitle { set; get; } public int ArticleID { set; get; } public string ArticleTitle { set; get; } public string URLArticleTitle { set; get; } public DateTime ArticleDate; public string ArticleContent { set; get; } } </code></pre> <p><strong>#3 (green box)</strong> - Displays last x articles. Uses the same ViewModel as brown box #2<br></p> <p><strong>#4 (blue box)</strong> - Displays list of upcoming events. Uses <code>dataContext.Model.Event</code> as ViewModel</p> <p>Boxes #1, #2 and #4 will repeat all over the site and they are part of Master Page. So, my question is: what is the best way to transfer this data from Model to Controller and finally to View pages?</p> <ol> <li>Should I make a controller for master page and ViewModel class that will wrap all this classes together OR</li> <li>Should I create partial Views for every of these boxes and make each of them inherit appropriate class (if it is even possible that it works this way?) OR</li> <li>Should I put this repeated code in all controllers and all additional data transfer via ViewData, which would be probably the worse way :) OR</li> <li>There is maybe a better and more simple way but I don't know/see it?</li> </ol> <p><br> Thanks in advance, Ile</p> <p><br><br> <strong>EDIT:</strong><br> If your answer is #1, then please explain how to make a controller for master page! <br> <br> <strong>EDIT 2:</strong><br> In this tutorial is described how to pass data to master page using abstract class: <a href="http://www.asp.net/LEARN/mvc/tutorial-13-cs.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.asp.net/LEARN/mvc/tutorial-13-cs.aspx</a><br> In "Listing 5 – Controllers\MoviesController.cs", data is retrieved directly from database using LINQ, not from repository. So, I wonder if this is just in this tutorial, or there is some trick here and repository can't/shouldn't be used?</p>
 

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