Another tool to clean up Asp.Net MVC views

  • Posted by liammclennan on February 18, 2009
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Do you have any code like this in your views?:

<% if (someThing == someOtherThing) { %>
    Conditional content
<% } else { %>
    Alternative content
<% } %>

Here is a very simple extension method to help clean up this kind of view code.

public static void WriteIf(this HtmlHelper helper, bool condition, string truePart, string falsePart)
{
    helper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Response.Write((condition) ? truePart : falsePart);
}

Then the view can be simplified to this:

<% Html.WriteIf(someThing == someOtherThing, "Conditional content", "Alternative content") %>

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