ASP.NET MVC TempData Is Really RedirectData
January 23, 2009
Author: Craig Stuntz
Update: This post was written for MVC 1. TempData behaves completely differently in MVC 2 Beta and higher. In these versions, TempData is cleared only when it is read (or when the session expires).
Many people seem to be confused about the TempData feature in ASP.NET MVC. TempData behaves like the ViewData dictionary, except that it persists until the next request from the…