ASP.NET MVC: Generate URLs without specifying the actionName

Question

This is how I generate a URL in ASP.NET MVC currently:

Url.Action("Index", new { page = 2 })

In previous frameworks I have used, there were special url functions which created a url based on the current url, only modifying the parts you wanted to change. This is in Pylons:

{{ url.current(page=2) }}

This would come in handy with partial views, where the partial view may be showing a list of items but not necessarily know which controller they belong to.

Two questions - why is such an obviously useful feature missing from ASP.NET MVC, and is there some common alternative way of doing what I mentioned with partial views? Maybe I'm approaching partial views completely wrong?

Answer 1

why is such an obviously useful feature missing from ASP.NET MVC

What makes you think that such feature is missing:

string url = Url.Action(null, new { page = 2 });

or:

string url = Url.RouteUrl(new { page = 2 });