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    <p>I've been playing around with MVC3 for a little while and I'm thinking of putting what I've learned to use now and knocking up a genuine project using it but there's one thing that I've never really seen clearly explained or demonstrated and was hoping I could get a little feedback from the community here on the subject. The question is that when you have a page that can be in two states depending on whether the visitor is authenticated, what techniques should I be using to switch between the two states? Should each page have two completely independent views and a shared model common to both views or is it best approached with partial views to control the difference between the logged in or anonymous elements? Or would it be better to have two different models AND two different views and then switch between them at the controller stage?</p> <p>I can see lots of different ways that I <em>could</em> implement it but I've never really seen any examples or suggestions on a best-practice way of going about it and I haven't built a project big enough yet to serve as a laboratory to find out the hard way, although that IS what I'm about to embark on.</p> <p>Does anyone have any stories to tell of ways they have gone about it? Even "Don't do it this way" would be helpful just to thin out some of the options.</p> <p>The reason I ask is that I'd like to make a site that isn't completely crippled until you login and register, it drives me nuts when you can't get past the home page of a site without going through a registration process so I want to be able to serve up a "Lite" version of each page with no user-specific content even if the visitor has not authenticated and then add the extra functionality to the page when they log in.</p> <p>I can see other questions on the same subject but they all seem to relate to iOS development so apologies if this question has been asked before but I couldn't see anything that answered my question.</p> <p>Feedback appreciated, I'd love to hear what works and what doesn't for other people.</p> <p>Edit: A less ambiguous way of asking the question.</p> <p>On my home page I have a username/password box in the top corner with a "login" button and a paragraph of text in the middle of the home page. When a user enters their username &amp; Password and hits submit I want that "login" control to change to a "Welcome: {username}" message and a logout button and I want the paragraph of text on the homepage to switch to an "authenticated" message. What I don't know is where to make these changes to the page structure, are these two views? Authenticated_Homepage and Anonymous_Homepage, do they share a single model or do I just have one homepage view and use partial views for the changing parts, or do I use roles on the controller to return different views?</p> <p>Just don't know which tools to use for the job to be honest.</p>
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