How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?

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JBeckton picture JBeckton · Dec 10, 2010 · Viewed 31.6k times · Source

I have a portion of my view that is rendered via RenderAction calling a child action. How can I get the Parent controller and Action from inside this Child Action.

When I use..

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

I get back the name of the Child Action but what I need is the Parent/Calling action.

Thanks

BTW I am using MVC 3 with Razor.

Answer

Rupert Bates picture Rupert Bates · Dec 17, 2010

And if you want to access this from within the child action itself (rather than the view) you can use 

ControllerContext.ParentActionViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

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