ASP.NET MVC - Get ViewContext from helper method

Question

I would like to create a static helper method that I can call from a view.

Is it possible for a helper method to have access to the current ViewContext without needing to explicitly pass the ViewContext to the method as a parameter?

Something like HttpContext.Current except for ViewContext.

pdr · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-19 01:10:02Z

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public static class XTenshuns
{
    public static string MyHtmlHelper(this HtmlHelper helper)
    {
        // it's right here -> helper.ViewContext
    }
}

answered Feb 19, 2010 at 1:10

pdr

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Keith Over a year ago

Can I only do it via extension methods then? What if I wanted a plain ol' helper method?

pdr Over a year ago

Well, it couldn't be a plain old helper method. If you wanted to make it more lightweight, you could rip off some of the code from HtmlHelper to roll something similar... even then you'd need to add that as a property somewhere, probably a custom ViewPage. Nah, it's been written this way for a reason. Why so against HtmlHelper?

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