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The Razor view engine in ASP.NET MVC supports @helper to define little helper methods. It seems you can do much the same by adding extension methods to HtmlHelper. In what situations is it best to use each?
Subjective question, so here’s my subjective and biased answer: When the helper code involves amounts of C# code use a custom HtmlHelper and when it’s primary markup you could use
@helper. But assuming that when you have markup you could use a partial like@Html.Partial("_foo", SomeModel)or an editor/display templates like@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Foo), the@helperdoesn’t really have any practical use. Personally I’ve never used@helperby the way, and I’ve never recommended it’s usage to people I’ve been consulting.