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   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

User · Answer

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"; } 
    }

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

Other way to get current Controller name in View   ViewContext Controller ValueProvider GetValue  controller   RawValue

User · Answer

Just use   ViewContext Controller GetType   Name   This will give you the whole Controller s Name

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

I do it like this  but perhaps it s only ASP NET MVC 4   ViewContext RouteData Values  controller

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