Flash equivalent in ASP.NET MVC 3

Question

There is a feature called \'flash\' in ruby on rails where you can put a message in \'flash\', redirect, and the message is available in the next action.

Example of

Answer 1

No, the TempData solution is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

This is a much requested feature which was in MvcContrib 2.0 - I am not sure if it made it to 3.0. I personally keep it in the session for a short period when I am doing PRG = Post-Redirect-Get.