how big should your controllers be in asp.net-mvc

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Published on 2010-05-23T10:56:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 11:00 UTC
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i see the new feature of areas in asp.net-mvc 2. it got me thinking. why would i need this? i did some reading on the use cases and it came down to a specific point to me around how big and how broad scope should my controllers should be?

should i try to have many little controllers? one big controller?

how do people determine the sweet spot for number of controllers? i think mine are maybe too large (which had me questioning areas in the first place as maybe my controller name should really be an area and have a number of smaller controllers)

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