Can I return a string using the @helper syntax in Razor?
Razor helpers return HelperResult objects. You can get the raw HTML by calling ToString(). For more information, see my blog post.
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Why is the HtmlHelper instance null in a Razor declarative @helper method?
Using Drew Noakes suggestion, I have come to a workaround that does the trick for now and that can be easily removed once the issue is solved in a newer version of MVC (that is if more stuff isn’t changed that would break it:)) The goal is to be able to use an HtmlHelper inside … Read more