A new breed of magic strings in ASP.NET MVC

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A new breed of magic strings in ASP.NET MVC(lostechies.com)

submitted by johnsheehan(4785) 3 years, 4 months ago

One of the common patterns in Ruby on Rails is the use of hashes in place of large parameter lists. Instead of hashes, which don’t exist in C#, ASP.NET MVC uses anonymous types for quite a few HTML generators on the view side. This is a trick used by the MVC team to simulate hashes. Since the dictionary initializer syntax is quite verbose, with lots of angly-bracket cruft, anonymous types provide a similar effect to hashes. However, don’t let the magic fool you. Anonymous types used to create dictionaries are still dictionaries.

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