Question

So, i need to get an area of a controller, and i’m getting the controllers with this way:

var assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetCallingAssembly();
var controllers = from type in assembly.GetTypes()
                  where type.Name.Contains("Controller")
                  select type;

Ok, with this way i’ve all controllers, but they are as Type, how can i cast in a MVC Controller? ‘Cause i need to get the controller area with somthing like that:

string area = controller.ControllerContext.RouteData.DataTokens["area"].ToString();

So?

Answer 1

You cannot cast a Type to an instance of an object. This doesn’t make sense. You might inspect the namespace into which this type is defined by looking at the type.FullName and is the only way to understand in which Area the controller that this Type represents is defined in. By the way checking that a given type is a controller using type.Name.Contains("Controller") seems pretty brittle and fragile. You’d better use where typeof(Controller).IsAssignableFrom(type);