Question

I have some MVC2 code that loops a collection of type Product held within the view model. Each time I want to output the data I have to use <%: %> along with using <% %>, for example:

<% foreach (Product item in Model.ProductsCollection) {
if (item.doesExist == true) { %>
    <%: item.name %>
<% } %>

Is there any way to still output item.name without having to close & open tags, e.g. in classic asp we used response.write()?
I appreciate the need to encode data using <%: %>, and am not wanting to bypass this, just wanting to output the encoded data without needing the bracket overhead.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use Response.Write() in conjunction with Html.Encode()

<% foreach (Product item in Model.ProductsCollection) {
  if (item.doesExist == true) {
    Response.Write(Html.Encode(item.name));
  }
} %>