How do I get over my fears of <% %> in my ASP.Net MVC markup?

Question

So I totally buy into the basic tenents of ASP.NET, testability, SoC, HTML control...it\'s awesome. However being new to it I have a huge hang up with the markup. I know it co

Answer 1

I like to make the syntax highlighting for my "<% %>" tags very similar to the background color. I use a black background and a silver-ish (don't have the specific colour on hand atm) colour for my "<% %>" tags. That plus the other suggestions here should have make your code more readable. Of course, you can always try another view engine (that's the beauty of MVC!)