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POWhere is the BEST PRACTICES place to put a list of Countries in a MVC Application?
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  1. POWhere is the BEST PRACTICES place to put a list of Countries in a MVC Application?
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    copied!<p>In a heavy enviroment application, we have Users, Locations, bla bla bla... and we use in many situations a call to a service where we retrieve the list of countries.</p> <p>Where is the 'best practice' or 'proper way' to implement this. This method is called in several places and many objects has a <code>List&lt;CountryVO&gt;</code> property.</p> <p>Specially considering using Razor views an often having to add this property to ModelViews</p> <p>The solution is using DAL / BLL / SERVICE / UI[s] architecture.</p> <p>Real Example:</p> <pre><code>public class User { ... ... public List&lt;DeliveryZoneVO&gt; DeliveryZones {get;set;} public User() { ... DeliveryZones = service.GetDeliveryZones().ToList(); } } </code></pre> <p>The class DeliveryZoneVO comes from a webservice, so one property is </p> <pre><code>int IdCountry </code></pre> <p>The class User have a list of DeliveryZoneVO as presented on the class, the 'problem' here, is since it retrieves the data from a web service, I only have the ID of the country.</p> <p>When I prepare the data in the controller to send to the View:</p> <pre><code>UserModelView userMV = new UserModelView(); userMV.user = service.GetUserById(1); ViewData.Model = userMV; </code></pre> <p>BUT, inside userMV.user, I have DeliveryZones with a list of DeliveryZoneVO objects with IdCountries.</p> <p>In the view, when I do (for example) :</p> <pre><code>@DisplayFor(m =&gt; m.user.DeliveryZones) </code></pre> <p>I want to show the Country Name, only have the ID. So i need a reference somewhere.. the question lies in where should that data needs to be placed that is considered BEST PRACTICES.</p> <p>Is having in all modelview (in the case of the example, the UserModelView() the property Countries with a List ?</p>
 

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