Get Current Area Name in View or Controller

Question

How do you get the current area name in the view or controller?

Is there anything like ViewContext.RouteData.Values[\"controller\"] for areas?

Answer 1

I know this is old, but also, when in a filter like ActionFilter, the context does not easily provide you with the area information.

It can be found in the following code:

var routeData = filterContext.RequestContext.RouteData;

if (routeData.DataTokens["area"] != null)
    area = routeData.DataTokens["area"].ToString();

So the filterContext is being passed in on the override and the correct RouteData is found under the RequestContext. There is a RoutData at the Base level, but the DataTokens DO NOT have the area in it's dictionary.