ViewBag declaration on controller

Question

I use ViewBag.Message with the same message several times in controller methods. Can I declare ViewBag.Message at the top of the class, so can it be used throughout the controller without repeating the code?

Answer 1

Assuming Razor syntax, you can achieve this with.

@{string pageMessage = ViewBag.Message.ToString();} 

then pageMessage is a local variable available for the page, for example:

 <h1>@pageMessage</h1> 

EDIT

The ViewBag is a dynamic object that is a member of the Controller base class, so just specify this once in the entire controller, you can put something in your controller constructor.

 public class MyController : Controller { public MyController() { ViewBag.ViewTime = DateTime.Now.ToString(); } // rest of controller code }