How to Return the Current Action in an ASP.NET MVC View

How can I return the current action in an ASP.NET MVC view?

Use the ViewContext and look at the RouteData collection to extract both the controller and action elements. But I think setting some data variable that indicates the application context (e.g., "editmode" or "error") rather than controller/action reduces the coupling between your views and controllers.

Get current action in mvc view model

You can add a property in your viewmodel that contains what it is used for. You can set this in the controller.

Get attribute of current controller action in MVC View

You should first make a reflection to the method with Type.GetMethodInfo

string actionName = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Action"]
MethodInfo method = type.GetMethod(actionName);
var attribute = method.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayNameAttribute), false);
if (attribute.Length > 0)
   actionName = ((DisplayNameAttribute)attribute[0]).DisplayName;
else 
   actionName = type.Name;   // fallback to the type name of the controller

And then you can pass the actionName to the View using something like

   ViewBag.name = actionName;

and then get the Viewbag variable from the view

Return view then action in MVC

You need to get the client to redirect the browser on page load, to automate it add this at the end of the view before the </html> tag:

<script type="text/javascript">
    window.location = "@Url.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName")";
</script>

Although I suspect there better solutions if we know the specific problem you are trying to overcome.

ASP.NET MVC Return Model From View To Action Method

You don't need the entire object here:

public ActionResult Delete(tAdminAlerts obj)

You just need an identifier for the record being deleted, which you'd then use to delete that record in the data:

public ActionResult Delete(int id)

You can then just create a simple link to that action. Different versions of ASP.NET MVC may have slight differences, but in general you could create an Action Link with the link text, action name, (optional) controller name, and route values. For example:

@Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id = obj.id })

(I'm assuming the identifier on obj in the view is called id, use whatever identifier you want to use.)

This would just create a simple link for the user to click on to take them to that Delete action.

ASP.NET MVC - Current Action from controller code?

You can access the route data from within your controller class like this:

var actionName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

Or, if "action" isn't a required part of your route, you can just index into the route data as per usual.

Returning to current view after actions in _Layout.cshtml

I found a completely different (and much easier and elegant) solution to my problem.

I simply created a BaseController, that holds the action for changing the localization.

Then all controllers I add to the site inherit from this BaseController. This gives a single location for the code and does not require sending any return parameters, etc.

BaseController:

public class BaseController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Index(string localization)
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(localization);
        return View();
    }
}

Each of the site's Controllers then only need to inherit from it, and then mind their own actions:

public class ApplicationsController : BaseController
{
    //
    // GET: /Applications/

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}
...

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