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Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1064054

Why is my razor view complaining "} expected" after upgrade to razor 2 / mvc 4?

I have an existing razor 1 / mvc 3 view, with a few nested if - very simple, but after upgrading to razor 2 / mvc 4 it is complaining at runtime and compile (BuildViews) about } expected. It used to work fine.

What can be wrong?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 5368

Answers (1)

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1064054

A number of legacy razor oddities were fixed in the razor 2 / mvc 4 upgrade; one interesting gotcha is that in razor 1, the following is legal (in a code region):

string foo = @Some.Complex.Expression;

Note that the @ there is superfluous and incorrect, but that razor 1 does not complain. However, razor 2 is more fussy and gets confused, reporting the } expected error. This line should be replaced with:

string foo = Some.Complex.Expression;

This is a bit subtle, because the error that occurs has nothing to do with braces ({/}), and can be some lines away from the reported line.

Upvotes: 43

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