How do i construct a route without ViewContext in ASP.NET MVC?

asp.net-mvc, routes

Solution

Try this:

var httpContext = new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current);
var requestContext = new RequestContext(httpContext);
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(requestContext, new RouteData()));

Hope this helps

UPDATED:

The previous is not correct (I've posted it from my memory). Try this instead (it works in one of my projects):

var httpContext = new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current);
var requestContext = new RequestContext(httpContext, new RouteData());
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(requestContext);

`new RouteData()` is using just only for `RequestContext` initialization and `new UrlHelper(requestContext)` actually calls `new UrlHelper(requestContext, RouteTable.Routes)`

Problem

I want to create a route from a utility class that doesn't have access to a ViewContext. Is this possible? There doesnt seem to be any equivalent of `ViewContext.Current` I've tried fishing around in all the constructors for Routing and HttpContext but can't quite get to what I want. This is what I'm looking for - although this doesn't work because `RouteTable.Routes` is of type `RouteCollection` and not `RouteData`. So close - yet so far :-) ``` RequestContext requestContext = new RequestContext(HttpContext.Current, RouteTable.Routes); UrlHelper url = new UrlHelper(requestContext); var urlString = url.RouteUrl(new {controller="DynamicImage", action="Button", text="Hello World"}); ``` Note: RequestContest is of type System.Web.Routing.RequestContext and not HttpContext

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