Find Area name and Controller Name in custom Htmlhelper with ASP.NET MVC3

Question

I try to rewrite and customize @Html.ActionLink, in one of overloads of this method the parameters are:

public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(this         


        

Answer 1

Use this:

string controllerName = 
(string)htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");

string areaName = 
(string)htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.DataTokens["area"];