ASP.NET Core ViewData, BindProperty or TempData?

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In ASP.NET Core Views and Razor Pages we can use:

public class LoginModel
{
    [BindProperty]
    public bool DisplayCaptcha { get; set; }

    // OR

    [ViewData]
    public bool DisplayCaptcha { get; set; }

    // OR

    [TempData]
    public bool DisplayCaptcha { get; set; }
}

To share data between View/Page/Controller... But when to use each one?

In my case its a simple login page and when user set a wrong password I will display a captcha.

In the form post i'm setting a property to true (DisplayCaptcha = true) and rendering the page with the captcha:

@if (Model.DisplayCaptcha)
{            
    <div class="captcha-header">
        ...
    </div>
}

This is working fine but i'm little confuse what type the attribute should be or even if I should use any.

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2 Answers

ViewData should be used when data is passed from PageModel to Page.

BindProperty should be used when data is passed from PageModel to Page and vice versa via POST/GET. This is two-way binding.

TempData should be used when data should be read only once.

In your case you should use BindProperty.

user_90373300

We use ViewData and TempData to maintain state of an object during postback. But because you are setting its value on every postback and it is part of model so it should be [BindProperty].

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