setting the page title, meta info in a view in asp.net mvc 4

Question

I am very new to MVC and I am updating a web form application to mvc. I have a shared layout (masterpage in webforms), I would like to set the meta and title information per vie

Answer 1

I like to set page titles dynamically using the action and controller names. You can use a library like Humanizer to convert "SomeActionName" into "Some action name":

public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
{
    public static MvcHtmlString GetPageTitle(this HtmlHelper helper)
    {
        var actionName = helper.GetRouteDataValue("action");
        var controllerName = helper.GetRouteDataValue("controller");

        return new MvcHtmlString(controllerName.Humanize() + " - " + actionName.Humanize());
    }

    private static string GetRouteDataValue(this HtmlHelper helper, string value)
    {
        return helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values[value].ToString();
    }
}

and then in your _Layout: