Getting full URL of action in ASP.NET MVC

Question

Is there a built-in way of getting the full URL of an action?

I am looking for something like GetFullUrl("Action", "Controller") that would return something like http://www.fred.com/Controller/Action.

The reason I am looking for this is to avoid hardcoding URLs in automated emails that are generated so that the URLs can always be generated relative to the current location of the site.

Answer 1

There is an overload of Url.Action that takes your desired protocol (e.g. http, https) as an argument - if you specify this, you get a fully qualified URL.