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()

Answer 2

Shouldn't you be using a validation method like Nerd Dinner implements?

That way you don't actually need to do all this and you can just return the View.

Answer 3

If you just want the action name then this would do the trick:

public static string ViewName(this HtmlHelper html)
{
    return html.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
}

Answer 4

If you want to get the filename from within a partial view, this seems to work:

public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
{
    public static string GetViewFileName(this HtmlHelper html, object view)
    {
        return @"\\"+ view.GetType().FullName.Replace("ASP._Page_", "").Replace("_cshtml", ".cshtml").Replace("_", @"\\");
    }
}

And in the partial view, you should do something like this:

var filename = Html.GetViewFileName(this);

or this:

@Html.GetViewFileName(this)

Please do comment if this is not a good approach - any alternatives?