How to get an 'MvcApplication' instance in ASP.NET controller?

Question

I think MvcApplication is a global singleton. I want to get the instance of MvcApplication in the controller. Then I put the following code in controll

Answer 1

I believe the reason why the original code didn't work is because HttpContext is both a property of Controller and its own class. Within a subclass of Controller, HttpContext will resolve to the property and produce the error mentioned. To get around it, explicitly reference the HttpContext class with it's fully qualified name:

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Application

Or, since the HttpContext property already returns the current HttpContext instance, you could use:

HttpContext.Application