How do I get Route name from RouteData?

Question

I have several routes defined in my Global.asax;

When I\'m on a page I need to figure out what is the route name of the current route, because route name drives my site

Answer 1

If you're working with a small subset of important routes you need to check for (a special case or two) you can just do this :

if (routeData.Route == RouteTable.Routes["gallery-route"])
{
   // current route is 'gallery-route'
}

A common reason for needing the route name is for debugging purposes. A quick and dirty way to do this follows - but you'll need to add each route name to the array of names. Should be fine for debugging - especially if the code isn't running during production.

// quick and dirty way to get route name
public string GetRouteName(RouteData routeData) 
{
    foreach (string name in new [] { "gallery-route", 
                                     "products-route", 
                                     "affiliate-route", 
                                     "default" }) 
    {
        if (routeData.Route == RouteTable.Routes[name])
        {
            return name;
        }
    }
    return "UNKNOWN-ROUTE";   // or throw exception
}

For anything beyond this you should take the (minimal) time needed for @haacked's solution.