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Actually, the solution turned out to be setting the ViewData in the Initialize event of the controller.<br />
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protected override void Initialize(System.Web.Rout<wbr />ing.Reques<wbr />tContext requestContext)<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; base.Initialize(requestCon<wbr />text);<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SetViewData();<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br />
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I'll give you the solution, though, because it was actually an interesting writeup. Thank you.
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New to web development. Having a bit of &quot;flow confusion&quot;.<br />
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I set an Application value in global.asax that identifies the environment (dev/test/prod).<br />
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I have a base controller that I want to expose a &quot;CanUserEdit&quot; property to be used by controllers, and also set an Application value for views to consume.<br />
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In my master page, I test &quot;ViewData[&quot;CanUserEdit&quot;]&quot;,<wbr /> which explodes because there is no such value.<br />
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I can't set the ViewData value in the base controller's constructor because there's no HttpContext at that point.<br />
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So, where can I hook into to set the ViewData value and how will this tie in with unit testing? I guess I'll need to be able to hand over a mock context for testing.<br />
<br />
Thank you.
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New to web development. Having a bit of "flow confusion".

I set an Application value in global.asax that identifies the environment (dev/test/prod).

I have a base controller that I want to expose a "CanUserEdit" property to be used by controllers, and also set an Application value for views to consume.

In my master page, I test "ViewData["CanUserEdit"]", which explodes because there is no such value.

I can't set the ViewData value in the base controller's constructor because there's no HttpContext at that point.

So, where can I hook into to set the ViewData value and how will this tie in with unit testing? I guess I'll need to be able to hand over a mock context for testing.

Thank you.

Actually, the solution turned out to be setting the ViewData in the Initialize event of the controller.

protected override void Initialize(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext)
        {
            base.Initialize(requestContext);

            SetViewData();
        }

I&#39;ll give you the solution, though, because it was actually an interesting writeup. Thank you.

Accessing Application object from controller

New to web development. Having a bit of &quot;flow confusion&quot;.

I set an Application value in global.asax that identifies the environment (dev/test/prod).

I have a base controller that I want to expose a &quot;CanUserEdit&quot; property to be used by controllers, and also set an Application value for views to consume.

In my master page, I test &quot;ViewData[&quot;CanUserEdit&quot;]&quot;, which explodes because there is no such value.

I can&#39;t set the ViewData value in the base controller&#39;s constructor because there&#39;s no HttpContext at that point.

So, where can I hook into to set the ViewData value and how will this tie in with unit testing? I guess I&#39;ll need to be able to hand over a mock context for testing.

Thank you.

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