Introduction

In order to get the current controller and action name in an ASP.NET MVC view, we use the RouteData object.

RouteData

The RouteData object contains information about the current routing path.

Get controller name

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()

In preceding code, we use the ViewContext object to access the RouteData of the current request. After that, we use the Values property to access the current routing path values. By passing the controller key to the Values property we can get the current controller name.

Get action name

In the same way, we pass the action key to the Values property to get the current action name.

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString()