How do you get access to the current System.Web.Routing.RequestContext from within a custom helper method in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I'm writing a helper method for ASP.NET MVC and I need to call Url.Content to get an appropriate URL for the context. However, in order to create a new UrlHelper() I need to get the current RequestContext (System.Web.Routing.RequestContext to be precise) and I'm not sure how to grab it. Anyone know?

Answer 1

If the current IHttpHandler is MvcHandler, you can use

((MvcHandler)HttpContext.Current.Handler).RequestContext