ASP.NET MVC - Is IsPostBack still here?

Question

I know, I know, I know. I shouldn\'t be doing webforms inside of MVC, I completely agree. But, the people who sign my paycheck will not approve a complete conversion of ou

Answer 1

I would definitely take a look at this blog post by Scott Hanselman where he puts an aspx page in a MVC application.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PlugInHybridsASPNETWebFormsAndASPMVCAndASPNETDynamicDataSideBySide.aspx

Your controllers will not have access to the ViewState property. Even if you did want to handle the problem of __VIEWSTATE, you would have to do some work in order to get it into a usable form in an mvc controller. Good luck on coming up with a conversion strategy, no matter how it works out a lot of people would be interested to know kind of problems you would face in the process.