Question

I have the following route:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{language}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    new { language = "en", controller = "XY", id = UrlParameter.Optional } 
);

For changing the language of the site, I would like to create links, which correspond exactly to the url of the current page, but have another language part.

What would be the best way, to generate such a link?

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

@Html.RouteLink("Switch Language", "Default", new { 
    controller = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"], 
    action = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"], 
    id = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"], 
    language = "fr" 
})

It would probably make sense to make an extension method to handle this though.