Question

I have a page where I want to include a “Home” link which takes me to my application’s base URL. So far the simplest way I managed to achieve this is through the following line of Razor code, but it’s not pretty and I’m not terribly confident about it:

@Html.RouteLink(MyResources.HomeLinkLabel, new { controller = "" })

Note that if I don’t include controller = "" then the hyperlink it generates takes me to the current page, not my base URL.

I feel I’m missing something obvious… What’s the correct way of doing this?

Answer 1

You could use the following code to get the root URL

Url.Content("~/");

The server-side ~/ syntax references the root of your application (meaning it will take into account if your app is registered in a virtual path in IIS).