Visual Studio + Razor: "Surround with..." Snippets

Question

I'm trying to use these awesome VS "Surround With" snippets with VS, but they dont't work as expected. Say I have some code:

<p>Success!</p>

If I select this code and select the ASP.NET MVC 4 / ifcs4 snippet, I would expect that my code becomes this:

@if (true) {
    <p>Success!</p>
}

But instead, it becomes this:

<% if (true) { %>
    <p>Success!</p>
<% } %>

These <% tags aren't even used in the Razor syntax, so why are they there? Isn't there any way I could put it to work in the expected manner?

Volkan Paksoy · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-22 21:15:02Z

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I think it's just an oversight on Microsoft's part.

I found the snippets path by choosing Tools -> Code Snippets Manager, selected HTML as language and selected ifcs4. The path for the snippet is (for VS 2013):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 4\Visual Studio 2013\Snippets\HTML\1033\ASP.NET MVC 4\ifcs.snippet

I updated the file with Razor-style if and it worked just fine even without reloading the project.

answered Jul 22, 2015 at 21:15

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Yan Paulo Over a year ago

Nice. Whoa, it's a shame this feature is overseen by Microsoft. It is so nice and helpful, and also so easy to fix...

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