RouteData.Values

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The HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString() Indeed return the current controller name but it return it as the user type it.

For example, my app contains "ImageGallery" controller and if the user type http://localhost/imagegallery to get it - then I get "imagegallery" from the RouteData.Values instead of "ImageGallery".

How can I get the original controller name?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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You get what the user entered because it does not matter typically (unless you are Linux/Unix). However, if your problem deals with the routes not resolving properly, then maybe this StackOverflow question is what you are looking for?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Mar 10 '12 at 15:17

Justin Pihony

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I want to translate it from my Resource file and it's case-sensitive. – Yair Nevet Mar 10 '12 at 15:31
I do not believe that you can change this as you get whatever the user entered. The best suggestion I have seen is to use a regex to deal with the case, otherwise. – Justin Pihony Mar 10 '12 at 15:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '12 at 23:40

Perhaps you can get the actual CLR instance of your controller, and get the name from there on your view...

@if (this.ViewContext.Controller is MyController)
{
}

and perhaps strip the "Controller" part of it's name... like

this.ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Name.Replace("Controller", "")

PS: Used .Replace(string, string) for the sake of simplicity of this post, but it's probably better to use a .Substring(int, int) call.

EDIT: You can also get the current controller from the Controller context if you were not in a View (though you'd be in the controller, in which case this.GetType() would do it.

RouteData.Values

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