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Render dynamic content with Razor

Render dynamic content with Razor

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Render dynamic content with Razor

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- [Instructor] Converting static HTML files to Razor files is just the first step in creating a dynamic web application. It's the ability to write C# code right within Views that makes Razor so useful, and in this video, I'll show you the basics of the Razor syntax. At a glance, there's not really much to the Razor syntax. For most scenarios, all you need to do is type the @ character anywhere in the page, immediately followed by the C# code that you want to execute and render. For example, let's say that I want to add a copyright to my page, and make sure that it always emits the current year, so that I don't have to remember to update it all the time. I can just do this. Notice how I get full intellisense when I begin writing code after the @ sign. Now when I run this page and scroll to the bottom, I can see that Razor has evaluated that expression, and rendered the resulting value as text right into the page. That's a pretty simple example, but the real power of Razor lies in HTML…

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