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Retrieve the current view name in ASP.NET MVC?

Answer 1

+2 A:

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");
        }

HTH, Dan

Daniel Elliott 2009-08-12 21:40:17

then Html.ViewName() :)

Daniel Elliott 2009-08-12 21:41:10

I need the View name, not the action name. The view isn't contained in the route data anywhere; it's determined by the return value from the controller method.

Dylan Beattie 2009-08-13 08:03:55

Answer 2

A:

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.

griegs 2009-08-12 22:07:57

Answer 3

A:

Just wrote a blog thingy about this

http://www.antix.co.uk/A-Developers-Blog/Targeting-Pages-with-CSS-in-ASP.NET-MVC

  /// <summary>
  /// <para>Get a string from the route data</para>
  /// </summary>
  public static string RouteString(
      this ViewContext context, string template) {

   foreach (var value in context.RouteData.Values) {

    template = template.Replace(string.Format("{{{0}}}",
            value.Key.ToLower()),
            value.Value == null
                ? string.Empty
                : value.Value.ToString().ToLower());
   }

   return template;
  }

usage

<body class="<%= ViewContext.RouteString("{controller}_{action}") %>">

Anthony Johnston 2009-08-13 14:13:46

Answer 4

+6 A:

Well if you don't mind having your code tied to the specific view engine you're using, you can look at the ViewContext.View property and cast it to WebFormView

var viewPath = ((WebFormView)ViewContext.View).ViewPath;

I believe that will get you the view name at the end.

EDIT: Haacked is absolutely spot-on; to make things a bit neater I've wrapped the logic up in an extension method like so:

public static class IViewExtensions {
 public static string GetWebFormViewName(this IView view) {
  if (view is WebFormView) {
   string viewUrl = ((WebFormView)view).ViewPath;
   string viewFileName = viewUrl.Substring(viewUrl.LastIndexOf('/'));
   string viewFileNameWithoutExtension = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(viewFileName);
   return (viewFileNameWithoutExtension);
  } else {
   throw (new InvalidOperationException("This view is not a WebFormView"));
  }
 }
}

which seems to do exactly what I was after. Thanks Phil. :)

Haacked 2009-08-14 16:39:50

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