Question

I have these to Helper Methods:

@AdminHelper.BeginLeftMenu()

    <a href="#">content</a>

@AdminHelper.EndLeftMenu()

Is it possible to make it look more like:

@AdminHelper.LeftMenu() {

    <a href="#">content</a>

}

Instead, and what would it looke like in c#?

Answer 1

How about making it look like this:

@using (Html.BeginLeftMenu())
{
    <a href="#">content</a>
}

which would generate for example:

<li>
    <a href="#">content</a>
</li>

You could have implemented it like this:

public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
{
    private class Menu : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly TextWriter _writer;
        public Menu(TextWriter writer)
        {
            _writer = writer;
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _writer.Write("</li>");
        }
    }

    public static IDisposable BeginLeftMenu(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
    {
        var writer = htmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer;
        writer.Write("<li>");
        return new Menu(writer);
    }
}