MVC: How Do I Prevent Exposing a Public Method on a Controller?

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The purists will say that you shouldn't have any public methods on a controller that aren't meant to be exposed via a view or redirect to another action. Assuming that you, like I, have encountered a situation where you need/want to do this, however, here is what you do:

The System.Web.Mvc.NonAction attribute will prevent your public method from being accessed via any routes.

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