I have a project using ASP.Net MVC & EF5. The Model has a large enough number of fields that the app will need several pages to collect all of the data.
Once the da
I actually came across this article , which was very informative and helped me : https://blacklineit.com/2015/10/14/rolling-your-own-viewstate-in-asp-net-mvc/
Basically the article comes down to this : "The easiest and cleanest way I found to persist data between pages is to use the great Newtonsoft JSON library to serialize viewmodel into a single hidden field, and deserialize on POST requests. "
Read it to get the background and additional info.