Until now, it was common to see this pattern in our views:
<script src="@Url.Content("~/scripts/myscript.js")"></script>
The Content method is a helper method which is responsible for converting a relative path into an absolute path. From now on (where now is the MVC4 release date which happened sometime ago 
), we can simplify our code so that it looks like this:
<script src="~/scripts/myscript.js"></script>
Yes, we no longer need to resort to the helper because Razor is smart enough to translate all attribute’s values that start with ~/ into a @Url.Content call. And when I say *all*, I do mean all. For instance, if the parser finds this:
<div data-info="~/info.txt">Some info</div>
It’s as if you had written this:
<div data-info="@Url.Content("~/info.txt")">Some info</div>
Notice you can also mix values with other code snippets. For instance, suppose you need to build an URL that combines an URL with some variable aux. In that case, you can simply write something like this:
<script src="~/scripts/@aux"></script>
The previous snippet will get translated into the following:
<script src="@Url.Content("~/scripts/")@aux"></script>
Simple, but nice, right? Razor 2 introduces a couple of other interesting features (ex.: conditional attributes), but we’ll leave that for a future post. Stay tuned for more.
