Lazycoder

Earlier I had said to keep your controllers as thin as possible, that doesn't mean that they should necessarily just be two, or one, lines of code.
Take an instance where you are retrieving items from a web service in your controller. Let's say that you get a 404 error and your service will throw [...]

When writing you controller actions, keep them short and sweet. Don't add a lot of actions and keep a close eye on the length of each action.
Whenever possible, I try to make my controller actions look something like this.
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CODE:

public ActionResult DoSomething()

{

    MyModel model = MyService.GetModel();

    return View("MyView",model);

}

//or

public ActionResult DoSomethingWithAKey(int myKey)

{

    MyModel [...]