Building a forum application, Part 4

I decided to take Magnus advice and user the "data everywhere" aproach to viewdata that Rob Conory user in his storefront application. This means that you will allways have everything available at all time in all pages. Rob does this by haveing methods at his base controller to set the data to the ViewDataDictionary. Then he have extension methods for his ViewDataDictionary to get the data in his views.