How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?

Question

I have a portion of my view that is rendered via RenderAction calling a child action. How can I get the Parent controller and Action from inside this Child Action.

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Answer 1

If the partial is inside another partial, this won't work unless we find the top most parent view content. You can find it with this:

var parentActionViewContext = ViewContext.ParentActionViewContext;
while (parentActionViewContext.ParentActionViewContext != null)
{
    parentActionViewContext = parentActionViewContext.ParentActionViewContext;
}