[asp.net-mvc-3] Get current controller in view

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

I reuse the V/M via the CategoryController as:

return PartialView("/Views/News/_Edit.cshtml", model);

How from within the View - _Edit can I alert the controller name?

When I:

alert('@ViewContext. RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()');

The Value is: News However, the URL is: /Category/foobar

Is there a way to get the value 'Category' to alert? thanks

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"; } 
    }

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

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

Other way to get current Controller name in View

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

Just use:

ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Name

This will give you the whole Controller's Name

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

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"]