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

public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(
    this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, 
    string linkText,   
    string actionName
)
{
    RouteData rd = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData;
    string currentController = rd.GetRequiredString("controller");
    string currentAction = rd.GetRequiredString("action");

    // the area is an optional value and it won't be present
    // if the current request is not inside an area => 
    // you need to check if it is null or empty before using it
    string area = rd.Values["area"] as string;

    ...
}