Today I worked on a project wherever i'm needed to show a picture on the web page with ASP.NET MVC. As you recognize there's not a hypertext markup language Helper for pictures yet. check out the following screen, we will not see a picture here:

Before proceeeding during this article, let me share the sample data source here:

Data Source & Controller

View

As in the above image, the first one (@Html.DisplayFor…) is generated by scaffolding on behalf of me (marked as a comment within the above view) and the second one is an alternative that may work. So, we do not have a hypertext markup language helper to manage pictures exploitation Razor syntax! We will develop an extension method for this that will allow us to work with pictures. Let's start.

Now, Add a class file using the following code: using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace MvcApplication8.Models
{   
public static class ImageHelper
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString Image(this HtmlHelper helper, string src, string altText, string height)
        {
            var builder = new TagBuilder("img");
          builder.MergeAttribute("src", src);            builder.MergeAttribute("alt", altText);
            builder.MergeAttribute("height", height);
            return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing));
        }
    }
}

The above "Image" function has the "MvcHtmlString" type and can settle for a four-parameter helper (helper sort "image"), src (image path), altText (alternative text) and height (height of image) and will return a "MvcHtmlString" type. In the view, comment-out the last line (HTML style approach) and use the new extended technique for the image, as in:

Note: Please note to use "@using MvcApplication8.Models" namespace on every view page to enable this new HtmlHelper. If you set a breakpoint on the extension method then you'll notice that the method returns the exact markup that we need.

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