Question

Here is a way that we are currently spitting out some HTML to our view.

            foreach (var reportGroup in managedReportGroup.CustomerTags)
            { %>

                <%= reportGroup.Name %>

                <%
            }

Is there something that I can do like this? (This won’t work for me)

        Action<ManagedReportGroups> handlesReportGroup = delegate(ManagedReportGroups managedReportGroup)
        {
            foreach (var reportGroup in managedReportGroup.CustomerTags)
            {
                Html.Encode(reportGroup.Name);                    
            }
        };  

The reason would be to cut down on the aligator brackets and clean up my code.

Thanks,

Mike

Answer 1

If you move it to partial views, you will still have to do the loop inside the partial.

You could create custom Html extension methods if you were really dead-set against your first example.

Or if your main goal really is to reduce “alligator brackets” you could cut it down to two if you did it this way:

<%
    foreach (var reportGroup in managedReportGroup.CustomerTags)
    {
        Response.Write(reportGroup.Name)
    }
%>

You might also consider the Spark View Engine