Custom html helpers: Create helper with “using” statement support

Question

I\'m writing my first asp.net mvc application and I have a question about custom Html helpers:

For making a form, you can use:

<% using (Html.Begi         


        

Answer 1

I tried following the advice given here in MVC3, but I ran into trouble using:

htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Response.Write(...);

When I used this code, my helper was writing into the Response stream BEFORE my Layout was rendered. This didn't work well.

Instead I used this:

htmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(...);