Question

I have a complex View (cshtml) in my MVC3 project. Depending on different variables, the parts of this code must be shown in a different order. How can I separate blocks of Razor/HTML code and “include” them at the proper position?
Looking for something like that:

@{ CODEBLOCK 1
...
}

@{ CODEBLOCK 2
...
}

@if (bla==1) {
    include CODEBLOCK 1
    include CODEBLOCK 2
} else {
    include CODEBLOCK 2
    include CODEBLOCK 1
}

I don’t want to use HtmlPartial, since I don’t want to pass all vars, the model and other stuff to it.

Answer 1

You can use helper methods:

@helper CodeBlock1()
{
    ...
}

@helper CodeBlock2()
{
    ...
}

@if (bla==1) {
    CodeBlock1();
    CodeBlock2();
} else {
    CodeBlock2();
    CodeBlock1();
}

As a bonus, it’s type safe and allows arguments.