How to generate a path/url from a Route in the Routes table?

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC web application, and I\'ve registered a number of routes in my Global.asax.

I would like to know how I can programmatically build (generate a strin

Answer 1

You could use the UrlHelper class inside your controller action.

public ActionResult Index()
{
    string address = Url.RouteUrl(new { 
        action = "foo", controller = "bar", id = "123" 
    });
    // TODO: do something with the url

    return View();
}