Is It Correct Pattern To Return Different Views From MVC Controller
Jul 9, 2010
I have an application that has an public 'end user' mode and a 'back office' mode. Both 'modes' pretty much share the same controller logic but the user interfaces for these different 'modes' are radically different. Using the out of box default routing that you get when a project is created for the first time I have something like the following:
Controllers
HomeController.cs
Views
BackOffice
Index.aspx
Public
Index.aspx
Shared
BackOfficeSite.Master
PublicSite.Master
In my HomeController.cs I have logic that looks like this:
public ActionResult Index()
{
var devices = DeviceRepository.FindDevicesByCustomer(100);
if(IsBackOffice())
{
return View(@"~/Views/BackOffice/Index.aspx", devices);
}
return View(@"~/Views/Public/Index.aspx", devices);
}
Is this the correct way to be doing this or am I digging myself an anti-pattern hole? I'm using ASP.NET MVC 2.
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