MVC ViewBag Best Practice

Question

For the ViewBag, I heard it was a no-no to use. I would assume have the content from the ViewBag should be incorporated into a view model?

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Answer 1

1) Is my assumption above the best practice. (Not to use a ViewBag and second to have it in the view model)

Yes.

2) Are there situations where a ViewBag is absolutely necessary?

No. Everything that you have stored in a ViewBag could go into the view model passed to the view.