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

I would up-vote Simon_Weaver's answer but unfortunately I just joined and do not have the reputation points to do so.

Adding to his answer, because it was exactly what I was looking for, here's the way I do it:

I have a public enum "PageRouteTable":

public enum PageRouteTable
{
    // -- User Area
    UserArea_Locations,
    UserArea_Default,
    UserArea_PasswordReset,
    UserArea_Settings,
    .
    .
    .
}

I use this enum when building the routes:

/* -- User Area Routes -- */
routes.MapPageRoute(PageRouteTable.UserArea_Default.ToString(), "home", "~/UserArea/Default.aspx");

I then created a Page extension method:

public static PageRouteTable? CurrentRoute(this Page p)
{
    string[] pageRoutes = Enum.GetNames(typeof (PageRouteTable));
    foreach (string pageRoute in pageRoutes)
    {
        if (p.RouteData.Route == RouteTable.Routes[pageRoute])
        {
            return (PageRouteTable)Enum.Parse(typeof (PageRouteTable), pageRoute);
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Now in my pages I can simply use a switch to act upon it:

PageRouteTable? currentRoute = this.CurrentRoute();
if (currentRoute.HasValue) {
    switch(currentRoute.Value) {
        case PageRouteTable.UserArea_Default:
            // Act accordingly
            break;
        .
        .
        .
    }
}

I also have the benefit of explicitly defined variables and do not have to worry about coding against strings. This saves me a ton of headaches in maintenance.

-- happy coding.