Get current controller in view

Question

I have put this in my partial view:

@HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()

in the same kind of situation you describe, and it shows the controller described in the URL (Category for you, Product for me), instead of the actual location of the partial view.

So use this alert instead:

alert('@HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString()');

I do it like this:

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"]

Create base class for all controllers and put here name attribute:

public abstract class MyBaseController : Controller
{
    public abstract string Name { get; }
}

In view

@{
    var controller = ViewContext.Controller as MyBaseController;
    if (controller != null)
    {
       @controller.Name
    }
}

Controller example

 public class SampleController: MyBaseController 
    { 
      public override string Name { get { return "Sample"; } 
    }

Other way to get current Controller name in View

@ViewContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue("controller").RawValue

Just use:

ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Name

This will give you the whole Controller's Name

You are still in the context of your CategoryController even though you're loading a PartialView from your Views/News folder.