How do I get the MethodInfo of an action, given action, controller and area names?

Question

What I have is the following extension method:

public MyCustomAttribute[] GetActionAttributes(
    this Controller @this,
    string action,
    string contr         


        

Answer 1

if you have a default route configured like

routes.MapRoute(
        "Area",
        "",
        new { area = "MyArea", controller = "Home", action = "MyAction" }
    );

you can get the route information inside the controller action like

ht tp://localhost/Admin

will give you

public ActionResult MyAction(string area, string controller, string action)
{
 //area=Admin
 //controller=Home
 //action=MyAction
 //also you can use RouteValues to get the route information
}

here is a great blog post and a utility by Phil Haack RouteDebugger 2.0