ASP.NET MVC 4 RC: Get current controller name from HttpContext

To find out the name of the current controller from a HTTP context, you can use the following code snippet:

var controllerName = RouteTable.Routes.GetRouteData(
  new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current)
).Values["controller"].ToString();

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