Creating a URL in the controller .NET MVC

If you just want to get the path to a certain action, use UrlHelper:

UrlHelper u = new UrlHelper(this.ControllerContext.RequestContext);
string url = u.Action("About", "Home", null);

if you want to create a hyperlink:

string link = HtmlHelper.GenerateLink(this.ControllerContext.RequestContext, System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes, "My link", "Root", "About", "Home", null, null);

Intellisense will give you the meaning of each of the parameters.

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Update from comments: controller already has a UrlHelper:

string url = this.Url.Action("About", "Home", null); 

I had the same issue, and it appears Gidon's answer has one tiny flaw: it generates a relative URL, which cannot be sent by mail.

My solution looks like this:

string link = HttpContext.Request.Url.Scheme + "://" + HttpContext.Request.Url.Authority + Url.Action("ResetPassword", "Account", new { key = randomString });

This way, a full URL is generated, and it works even if the application is several levels deep on the hosting server, and uses a port other than 80.

EDIT: I found this useful as well.

If you need the full url (for instance to send by email) consider using one of the following built-in methods:

With this you create the route to use to build the url:

Url.RouteUrl("OpinionByCompany", new RouteValueDictionary(new{cid=newop.CompanyID,oid=newop.ID}), HttpContext.Request.Url.Scheme, HttpContext.Request.Url.Authority)

Here the url is built after the route engine determine the correct one:

Url.Action("Detail","Opinion",new RouteValueDictionary(new{cid=newop.CompanyID,oid=newop.ID}),HttpContext.Request.Url.Scheme, HttpContext.Request.Url.Authority)

In both methods, the last 2 parameters specifies the protocol and hostname.

Regards.

Another way to create an absolute URL to an action:

var relativeUrl = Url.Action("MyAction");  //..or one of the other .Action() overloads
var currentUrl = Request.Url;

var absoluteUrl = new System.Uri(currentUrl, relativeUrl);