How to get string action and controller names from UrlHelper

Question

I have

public MvcHtmlString(this UrlHelper url)
{
    string controller = //???
    string action = //????
}

Does anyone know a solution?

Answer 1

Try the following:

string controller = url.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
string action = url.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["action"];