Getting current controller & action from within partial view

Question

I\'m using the following to get the current controller and action in asp.net MVC3:

var currentAction = routeData.GetRequiredString(\"action\");
var currentCo         


        

Answer 1

After your updated question and showing your code it is much more clear: you are not including a partial view. You are calling a child action. There's a huge difference between Html.Partial and Html.Action. So if you want to get the parent context inside this child action you could do this:

public ActionResult Menu()
{
    var rd = ControllerContext.ParentActionViewContext.RouteData;
    var currentAction = rd.GetRequiredString("action");
    var currentController = rd.GetRequiredString("controller");
    ...
    return View();
}

Answer 2

I stumbled on this page looking for a way to access the parent controllers name after a call using Partial

@Html.Partial("Paging")

This can be done in the partial view as

@{
    var controller = ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
    var action = ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
}