I am relatively new to ASP.NET MVC, and am very impressed with the clarity of the platform so far. However, there is one aspect that I find uncomfortable.
At first, I accepted the fact that when I say
return View();
I am calling a helper method that returns an ActionResult, and makes some assumptions about which view to present, route values, etc. But lately I have been writing code that looks more like this:
return View("Index", new { id = myID })
because it is immediately clear to me what's happening by reading that single line of code.
Lately I have been struggling with the fact that I can have an Index.ASPX view open on the tabs, and I can't immediately tell where it comes from because the IDE doesn't highlight the current tab in the Object Explorer. I haven't resorted to changing the names of the files to ControllerNameIndex.ASPX, but I do put a title in the view that is more specific. Still, it doesn't help much.
How do you deal with these kinds of ambiguities?