Html.ActionLink cannot be used in Razor global helper

Question

I created a global .cshtml Razor file in the App_Code folder of my MVC project to declare @helper functions. The problem is that I cannot use Html.ActionLink (or other extensions) in helper functions. I tried importing classes via @using, but that didn't work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can add the following line to your helper to define Html

  var Html = ((System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage)WebPageContext.Current.Page).Html; 

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Answer 2

In addition to the accepted answer, to make @Html available in the entire helper file:

 @using System.Web.Mvc.Html ... @functions { protected static new System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper Html { get { return ((System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage)WebPageContext.Current.Page).Html; } } }