Do you use TryUpdateModel instead of UpdateModel?

UpdateModel will throw an exception if validation of the model fails. Instead of managing an exception, you should use TryUpdateModel as it adds the error to the ModelState dictionary. This lets you check the ModelState.IsValid property and decide how to handle the issue from there.

This is an important distinction to be made because if we had used UpdateModel then our if (ModelState.IsValid) would not be hit in the event of a failure to bind.

public ActionResult Create()
{
    Entity myEntity = new Entity();
    UpdateModel(myEntity);
}

public ActionResult Create()
{
    Entity myEntity = new Entity();
    TryUpdateModel(myEntity);

    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        // ...
    }
}