ASP.NET MVC Referencing Html Helper from a view

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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?

Yngve B-Nilsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-09 16:07:43Z

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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!

edited Mar 9, 2011 at 16:07

answered Mar 9, 2011 at 10:39

Yngve B-Nilsen

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Dan Over a year ago

I get "A using namespace directive can only be applied to namespaces; 'Storyboard.Helpers.DetailsForm' is a type not a namespace"

Dan Over a year ago

So I tried using just Storyboard.Helpers but then it goes back to complaining that "The name 'LabelAndData' does not eixst in the current context".

Yngve B-Nilsen Over a year ago

If this still doesn't help, it would be helpful if you post the code to your helper, including namespace and class..

Dan Over a year ago

Yes, that works. I couldn't refer to it properly as an extension to Html before, hence the passing it as the first parameter, but now it works. Thanks!

rob waminal · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-09 10:08:35Z

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if you use the same namespace as the Default Html Helpers which is System.Web.Mvc.Html of MVC for the one that you created, you don't need to reference your created Html Helper anywhere.

answered Mar 9, 2011 at 10:08

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