asp.net mvc - How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?

Question

I have a portion of my view that is rendered via RenderAction calling a child action. How can I get the Parent controller and Action from inside this Child Action.

When I use..

@ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]

I get back the name of the Child Action but what I need is the Parent/Calling action.

Thanks

BTW I am using MVC 3 with Razor.

Answer 1

And if you want to access this from within the child action itself (rather than the view) you can use

ControllerContext.ParentActionViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"]