Question

So inside my ASP.NET MVC View I have a conditional statement to redirect users to a different page.

What is the best way to do this?

What is the Controller.RedirectToAction() equivalent for a View?

Answer 1

This sounds like a perversion of MVC and if you can’t do the redirect in the controller, then your logic is not correct.

However, here is what I would use if I didn’t have access to the controller for whatever reason:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content='0;url=<%=Html.Action("MyAction","MyController") %>'>

Update

In your comment, you mentioned it’s because you’re doing role checking and you don’t want to do this in every controller/action. If that’s the case, then here is something that you might like to consider:

Create a base controller class and have every controller extend from this class.

In your base controller, have an OnActionExecuting method. In here, you have something like this:

public class MyBaseController : Controller
{
  protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
  {
     base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
     if (/*the user is not in the role desired*/)
     {
       RedirectToRoute(filterContext, new { controller = "MyController", action = "MyAction"});
    }
  }

  private void RedirectToRoute(ActionExecutingContext context, object routeValues)
  {
    var rc = new RequestContext(context.HttpContext, context.RouteData);
    string url = RouteTable.Routes.GetVirtualPath(rc, new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues)).VirtualPath;
    context.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(url, true);
  }
}