select right menu on master page in MVC from child page

Question

I have a couple of list items in a shared _layout.cshtm file (master page) in my MVC application.

something like:

Answer 1

Just wanted to share what i do:

I create folder App_Code and add CustomHelpers.cshtml. In it i create something like this:

@helper MainMenu(string SelectedItem) {
    

        
class="Active" }>Home
        
class="Active" }>About
        
class="Active" }>Foo
    
}

Than in my MasterPage (_Layout.cshtml) i add this where i want my menu to apear:

@CustomHelpers.MainMenu(ViewBag.SelectedMenu)

And than in my view, just like i change my page title, i change my selected menu:

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Welcome to my homepage";
    ViewBag.SelectedMenu = "Home";
}

Got my idea from this tutorial: www.asp.net/mvc/videos/mvc-3/mvc-3-razor-helpers