This code will not work without the @ in front of the <li> tag.

Is there an easy rule to remember to know when the @ is required to transition back to html? In the Razor section of Chapter 3 it indicates @ is required to transition from markup to code, and sometimes back, but I never found any examples or explanations about when @ is required for the transition back to markup.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Alan

From Stack Overflow:

It is required when the previous line is plain code (such as For Each).

This is because in VB there are XML literals that create ambiguity.

aw

Thanks for posting the update - all the code samples in the book are in C#, and I honestly haven't written much VB.NET for several years (although it was my first .NET language) so I'd have been looking over on SO myself. Of course, seeing the answer makes total sense.