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

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");
}