Retrieve the current view name in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I have a partial view (control) that\'s used across several view pages, and I need to pass the name of the current view back to the controller - so if there\'s e.g. validati

Answer 1

I had the same problem and that's how I solved it:

namespace System.Web.Mvc
{
    public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
    {
        public static string CurrentViewName(this HtmlHelper html)
        {
            return System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(
                ((RazorView)html.ViewContext.View).ViewPath
            );
        }
    }
}

Then in the view:

var name = Html.CurrentViewName();

or simply

@Html.CurrentViewName()