Question

I am an ASP.NET MVC 3 noob learning by working my way thru the wrox book–but translating the code to VB because I work in a VB shop.

I am trying to translate this C# code into VB to generate a view:

@using (Html.BeginForm(“Search”, “Home”, FormMethod.Get)) {
    <input type=”text” name=”q” />
    <input type=”submit” value=”Search” />
}

It seems like a fairly simple case of just replacing the braces, but I get the following errors from the compiler and can’t figure out why.

@Using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Home", FormMethod.Get))
      <input type="text" name="q" />            //   '>' expected.  
      <input type="submit" value="Search"/>     //   '>' expected.  
End Using

I’m sure this is a simple sytnax issue, but I don’t know the syntax yet. I’m also trying to understand HTML helpers and razor, so there is a lot of new stuff. Can someone explain!

Answer 1

You need to mark the beginning of the html markup inside code blocks like inside Using with @ or with <text>.

@ is for single line:

@Using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Home", FormMethod.Get))
      @<input type="text" name="q" /> 
      @<input type="submit" value="Search"/>
End Using

<text> is for multi line:

@Using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Home", FormMethod.Get))
      @<text>
          <input type="text" name="q" />           
          <input type="submit" value="Search"/>    
      </text>
End Using

For more info see: Combining text, markup, and code in code blocks