MVC 3 Razor, Helpers with custom markup/section

Question

I\'m not even sure if this is possible, but I thought I would check to see if there is any way to make this easier.

First, I have some repeated markup in my site that lo

Answer 1

@TheKaneda, Thanks for the insight. I took your idea and extended it, such that you supply a PartialView name and it knows how to parse it.

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Public Function UseTemplate(ByVal html As HtmlHelper, ByVal PartialView As String) As IDisposable
    Return New TemplateWrapper(html, PartialView)
End Function

Public Class TemplateWrapper
    Implements IDisposable

    Private _HtmlHelper As HtmlHelper

    'Index 0 is header
    'Index 1 is footer
    Private _TemplateWrapper As String()

    Public Sub New(ByVal Html As HtmlHelper, ByVal PartialView As String)

        _TemplateWrapper = Html.Partial(PartialView).ToHtmlString.Split("@@RenderBody()")

        _HtmlHelper = Html
        _HtmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(_TemplateWrapper(0))

    End Sub

    Public Sub Dispose() Implements IDisposable.Dispose

        _HtmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(_TemplateWrapper(1).Substring(12))

    End Sub

End Class

Use the same usage as @TheKaneda's example. In your partial view, instead of calling @RenderBody(), just put @@RenderBody() which acts as a flag for the middle part of your content. Sorry for the VB translation.

Uses an example of my usage.

Using Html.UseTemplate("ContentWrapper")

    @Html.EditorFor(Function(m) m.Var1, "TemplateHint")
    @Html.EditorFor(Function(m) m.Var2, "TemplateHint")
    @Html.EditorFor(Function(m) m.Var3)

End Using

My Partial looks like this...

 
    @@RenderBody()