@using block before @Html.BeginForm

Question

I was wondering why enclose @Html.BeginForm() in @using block like below. Does it matter if I don't use @using block?

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
}

Answer 1

Does it matter if I don't use @using block?

Yes, it will matter. The BeginForm method returns an IDisposable and in its Dispose method it renders the closing </form> tag. So if you don't place it in a using statement you will have to generate the closing form tag yourself:

@Html.BeginForm()
...
@Html.EndForm()

which is uglier.