Question

I’ve written an Html Helper called DetailsForm to reduce repetition when displaying fields in a view. Within a view – actually a partial view, ascx file – I can refer to it like this:

Storyboard.Helpers.DetailsForm.LabelAndData(Html, m => m.id)

But would like to refer to it like this:

LabelAndData(Html, m => m.id)

A ‘using’ directive doesn’t seem to be allowed in the ascx file. Is there an equivalent?

Answer 1

you should be able to import the namespace in the top of your ascx, like so:

<%@ Import Namespace="Storyboard.Helpers" %>

UPDATE

Reading your comment, I’m guessing your helper looks something like:

public static Something LabelAndData(this HtmlHelper html, .....

in which case you would call it like this in your view:

Html.LabelAndData(m => m.id)

Hope that helps!