Since I updated my ASP.NET5 project to beta4 (the one included with Visual Studio 2015 RC), any of my Razor views where I use a helper, such as:
@helper foo()
{
<h2>Bar</h2>
}
results in the following error:
error CS0103: The name 'helper' does not exist in the current context.
Is the @helper
directive no longer supported? Can someone point me to anything useful about the issue?
The @helper
directive was removed since beta 4 because it imposed too many restrictions on other Razor features: https://github.com/aspnet/Razor/issues/281.
Edit
To be clear: based on the discussion in the GitHub issue(s) Microsoft is not planning to bring the @helper
directive back or replace it in ASP.NET Core.
Rather than using a helper method, you can achieve the same functionality using a partial with a view model. Just pass the relevant arguments into the Html.Partial command.