Determine Page Name Dynamically
In certain scenarios you may need to quickly determine the name of the current page you are working with dynamically. To demonstrate this with C#, we will create a simple web site with a web form and display the name of that form on the web page. At this point I have created a new ASP.NET Empty Web Site. To begin:
- Right click the project in your solution explorer.
- Select add new item...
- Select a web form.
- Name it 'Default.aspx'.
- Click add.
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Next, we need to add some simple code to grab the current page name and display it. To do this:
- Open Default.aspx.cs up for editing.
- Add the following using statement at the top of the class:
- Add the following code to the Page_Load event method:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//get the current page name
string pageName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Request.Path);
//display current page name
Response.Write(pageName);
}
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Let's review what this code is doing. We create a variable called
pageName, and then call the
GetFileNameWithoutExtension method passing it the current path using
Request.Path. This returns to us the name of the current file without an extension.
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Testing
To test this out, load up the web site. Ensure that the correct name of the current page is being displayed without an extension.