How do you get the current MVC Area name in a .cshtml file in ASP.NET Core

Question

I can get the current controller name and action name in a _Layout.cshtml by doing the following

var controller = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();
var action = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();

However when I try get the area

var area = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["area"].ToString();

it doesn't work as only 2 keys exist in that object("controller" and "action")

I examined the ViewContext.RouteData object and cannot get a value for the current Area name.

The previous answers for the previous version of ASP.net don't work for me.

Answer 1

Thanks to Pranav's comment! GetNormalizedRouteValue method is now public. So you can call RazorViewEngine.GetNormalizedRouteValue method in your view to the the area name when you pass the key as "area".

<h2> @RazorViewEngine.GetNormalizedRouteValue(ViewContext, "area") </h2>

RazorViewEngine class belongs to Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor namespace. So make sure you have a using statement to import that in your view.

@using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor

GetNormalizedRouteValue method is doing the same as explained in the previous version of answer. You can see the source code here

---

This totally worked for me in a razor view (MVC6).

@using Microsoft.AspNet.Routing
@{        
    var myAreaName = string.Empty;
    object areaObj;
    if (ViewContext.RouteData.Values.TryGetValue("area", out areaObj))
    {
        myAreaName = areaObj.ToString();
    }
}

<h1>@myAreaName</h1>