MVCContrib grid and posting back with model binder

Question

The contents of my MVCContrib grid come from the Model on a strongly typed View. When a post is made, the contents of the grid are not in the model object when it returns to the controller. I can see that this is because the grid renders as just a table with text in cells. Is there something I can do so that when the post occurs, the list data I sent down to the grid comes back in the post?

Answer 1

You can use TempData to persist this information server side. The information in TempData will persist for one request. I do not really like this option however.

Can you not repopulate your model from the db? If the user is not changing the information why do you need to post back all the same unchanged information? Just grab it again from where you got it before.