MVC Razor - Create / Edit view best practice
I'm working with MVC 3 / Razor for the first time and it seems odd that all the examples and VS scaffolds for create and edit views all have separate HTML views for these concepts.

There is really not much difference between many Create/Edit forms so I was wondering why I can't find examples of people using a single Update form that can be used by both Create and Edit actions.

I have gotten an Update.cshtml view working but was wondering about how it talks to the Edit or Create action method on the controller.

My questions are:

1. Anyone have a quick answer to talking to the controller, or
2. Anyone know of a tutorial showing good practice for working this way, or
3. Is there some good reason for keeping the Create/Edit views separate when the HTML is often the same.

Cheers Dave
MVC Razor - Create / Edit view best practice
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I'm working with MVC 3 / Razor for the first time and it seems odd that all the examples and VS scaffolds for create and edit views all have separate HTML views for these concepts.

There is really not much difference between many Create/Edit forms so I was wondering why I can't find examples of people using a single Update form that can be used by both Create and Edit actions.

I have gotten an Update.cshtml view working but was wondering about how it talks to the Edit or Create action method on the controller.

My questions are:

1. Anyone have a quick answer to talking to the controller, or
2. Anyone know of a tutorial showing good practice for working this way, or
3. Is there some good reason for keeping the Create/Edit views separate when the HTML is often the same.

Cheers Dave