Convincing Razor to Recognize All of Your Expression -- Visual Studio Magazine

.NET Tips and Tricksby Peter Vogel

Convincing Razor to Recognize All of Your Expression

Razor's ability to distinguish between code and HTML/text often looks like magic to me. However, like any good magic act, I'm sometimes surprised by the results I get. For example, this code in a View didn't give me the results I expected:

@SalesOrder.CustomerName & " -- unknown"

Instead of getting the customer's name followed by " -- unknown", I got this:

Peter Vogel & " -- unknown"

Razor had decided that my expression ended at the space before my ampersand. Fortunately, to tell Razor where the real end of my expression is, I just have to include the whole expression in parentheses. This code solved my problem:

@(SalesOrder.CustomerName & " -- unknown")

Now I get:

	Peter Vogel – unknown

which is precisely what I want.

Posted by Peter Vogel on 09/14/2015

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