Question

I’m starting to develop an application using ASP.NET MVC 4 framework with Razor syntax. I want to know where (folder location) I should create my HTML Helper class. Best practice.

For example:

• VisualStudioSolution
  • Controlles
  • Html
    • HtmlHelperClass.vb
  • Models
  • Views

Answer 1

use this.To use the “@helper” feature in Razor you need to place the CSHTML file in the App_Code folder of your app. There is no “Views/Helpers” folder in ASP.NET MVC 3. ScottGu’s blog post was written before the feature was fully implemented, and some of the notes there are not entirely accurate anymore.

To call the “@helper” that you wrote you have to include both the filename as well as the name of the helper inside it. For example, if you have this helper:

~/App_Code/MyHelper.cshtml

And this content:

@helper ShowStuff(string stuff) {
    <p>@stuff</p>
}

Then you call it like so:

@MyHelper.ShowStuff("some stuff!")