Breadcrumbs in C# MVC Website using Bootstrap

Question

I'm looking to add breadcrumbs to my site, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have been able to get something basic working with the following code:

<ol class="breadcrumb">
    <li class="active">
        @Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")
        @if (ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] != "Home" && ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] != "Index")
        {
            @:> @Html.ActionLink(ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString(), "Index", ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString())
        }

        > @ViewBag.SubTitle
    </li>
</ol>

The problem I have though is that this doesn't actually track your history, it just shows you

Home > ControllerName > CurrentItem

e.g.

Home > Members > Greg Dodd

This works well when you've come from a member search page, however if you come from a different page then you lose that history. How do you create a breadcrumb trail using History in MVC?

I guess what I'm looking for is something like:

Home > Controller1 > PreviousItem > ... > CurrentItem

e.g. If you opened up a blog, then a particular blog item, then clicked the authors name, your breadcrumbs should be:

Home > Blog > SomeBlogTitle > AuthorName

If however you opened a list of authors and then chose a particular author, you would see the same view rendered using the same controller, but the breadcrumbs should show:

Home > Authors > AuthorName

Answer 1

I created an OSS project to solve the problem for myself. I needed more dynamic control of the label in the breadcrumb:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MvcBreadCrumbs

or, contribute here:

https://github.com/thelarz/MvcBreadCrumbs