Strongly typed urls in asp.net mvc

Question

I'm trying to URLs from the LinkBuilder in Microsoft.Web.Mvc. AT the moment, I have:

LinkBuilder.BuildUrlFromExpression(???, RouteTable.Routes, x => x.Index())

But I'm not sure how to get the request context in all cases. E.g. If I'm in a IHttpModule, is it possible for me to somehow get the request context so I can create a URL like this?

Answer 1

If you are using System.Web.Routing for your MVC setup, you can implement an IRouteHandler (example) which will return a new instance of your custom IHttpHandler class. Since the logic for instantiating the HttpHandler goes inside the GetHttpHandler method of the IRouteHandler, and the IRouteHandler has access to the route request context data, you can pass that in to your HttpHandler's constructor and use it appropriately.