Less than percent colon – code render blocks in ASP.NET

ASP.NET 4.0 introduces the following code render block syntax:

<%: YourOutput() %>

The search terms “less than percent colon” and “less than percentage colon” did not turn up anything for me in google, but thanks to stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2676236/are-and-the-same-thing-as-embbed-code-expression-blocks

<%: is almost the same as <%= except that the output from <%: is automagically html encoded.