Get current controller in view

Question

I have a View - _Edit which lives in News M/V/C.

I reuse the V/M via the CategoryController as:

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Answer 1

I have put this in my partial view:

@HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()

in the same kind of situation you describe, and it shows the controller described in the URL (Category for you, Product for me), instead of the actual location of the partial view.

So use this alert instead:

alert('@HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()');

Answer 2

Create base class for all controllers and put here name attribute:

public abstract class MyBaseController : Controller
{
    public abstract string Name { get; }
}

In view

@{
    var controller = ViewContext.Controller as MyBaseController;
    if (controller != null)
    {
       @controller.Name
    }
}

Controller example

 public class SampleController: MyBaseController 
    { 
      public override string Name { get { return "Sample"; } 
    }

Answer 3

You are still in the context of your CategoryController even though you're loading a PartialView from your Views/News folder.

Answer 4

You can use any of the below code to get the controller name

@HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();

If you are using MVC 3 you can use

@ViewContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue("controller").RawValue

Answer 5

I do it like this, but perhaps it's only ASP.NET MVC 4

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"]

Answer 6

Other way to get current Controller name in View

@ViewContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue("controller").RawValue