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I am relatively new to ASP.NET MVC, and am very impressed with the clarity of the platform so far. However, there is one aspect that I find uncomfortable.
At first, I accepted the fact that when I say
return View();
I am calling a helper method that returns an ActionResult, and makes some assumptions about which view to present, route values, etc. But lately I have been writing code that looks more like this:
return View("Index", new { id = myID })
because it is immediately clear to me what's happening by reading that single line of code.
Lately I have been struggling with the fact that I can have an Index.ASPX view open on the tabs, and I can't immediately tell where it comes from because the IDE doesn't highlight the current tab in the Object Explorer. I haven't resorted to changing the names of the files to ControllerNameIndex.ASPX, but I do put a title in the view that is more specific. Still, it doesn't help much.
How do you deal with these kinds of ambiguities?
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The strategy of defaults over explicit configuration is also known as convention over configuration. Convention over configuration is a design philosophy and technique that seeks to apply defaults that can be implied from the structure of the code instead of requiring explicit code.
Convention over configuration (also known as coding by convention) is a software design paradigm used by software frameworks that attempts to decrease the number of decisions that a developer using the framework is required to make without necessarily losing flexibility and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles.
Convention over configuration is one of the pillars of Ruby on Rails. It brings "default structures for web pages, databases, and web services". Inspired by this, Sensio Framework is launched as a PHP MVC framework that adopts CoC . This is later renamed to Symfony.
config file in MVC application is managed by the NuGet which will keep track of what packages and versions have installed within your application. The Web. config file of an MVC application is one of the most useful and important files which contains the application level configurations.
I think you answered your own question.
There's no hard rule preventing you from calling your views very specific names, such as "ListOfFooBars" or "EditFizzBuzz" or "AddNewGeeblup". The naming convention for the default view engine only specifies that there's a folder corresponding to your model name under views, and there's an ASPX or ASPC file under that folder that corresponds to your view name.
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