Question

I need to generate a link to an action and send the link by email. I’d like to call something like this:

public string GetAbsolutePath(string actionName, string controllerName, string id)
{
    // Somehow generate the absolute path
}

I think I can use VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(string virtualPath) but I’m not sure how to get the virtual path either.

Answer 1

I ended up with this:

public static string AbsoluteAction(this UrlHelper url, string action, string controller, object routeValues)
{
    Uri requestUrl = url.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url;

    string absoluteAction = string.Format("{0}://{1}{2}",
                                          requestUrl.Scheme,
                                          requestUrl.Authority,
                                          url.Action(action, controller, routeValues, null));
    return absoluteAction;
}