ASP.Net MVC: Calling a method from a view

Question

In my MVC app the controller gets the data (model) from an external API (so there is no model class being used) and passes that to the view. The data (model) has a container

Answer 1

Controller not supposed to be called from view. That's the whole idea of MVC - clear separation of concerns.

If you need to call controller from View - you are doing something wrong. Time for refactoring.

Answer 2

You should create custom helper for just changing string format except using controller call.