Is there any good reason to use FormCollection instead of ViewModel?

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Is there any good reason to use FormCollection instead of ViewModel?

No. I have following issues.

Issue – 1

In case FormCollection is being used…It will be mandatory to Type Cast the Primitive Type Values un-necessarily because while getting the entry of specific Index of the System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection, value being returned is of type String. This situation will not come in case of Strongly Typed View-Models.

Issue – 2

When you submit the form and goes to Post Action Method, and View-Model as Parameter exists in the Action method, you have the provision to send back the Posted Values to you View. Otherwise, write the code again to send back via TempData/ViewData/ViewBag

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View-Models are normal classes, created to bind data to-from Views

Issue – 3

We have Data Annotations that can be implemented in View Model or Custom Validations.

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ASP.Net MVC simplifies model validatons using Data Annotation. Data Annotations are attributes thyat are applied over properties. We can create custom validation Attribute by inheriting the built-in Validation Attribute class.

Issue – 4

Example you have the following HTML

<input type="text" name="textBox1" value="harsha" customAttr1 = "MyValue" />

Question : How can we access the value of customAttr1 from the above eg from inside the controller

Answer : When a form get posted only the name and value of elements are posted back to the server.

Alternatives : Use a bit of jQuery to get the custom attribute values, and post that along with the form values to action method

Another option is to rather put what you got in your custom attributes in hidden controls

That’s the reason, I would always prefer to use View-Models

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