ASP.NET/MVC: Inline code

Question

What am I doing wrong? How come <%= this %> isn't being interpreted as C#?

Here's the code :

And here is what it renders (notice the Firebug display):

What do you think is going on? MVC newb here. :(

And the static Site class:

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Answer 1

<%: %> starts with .NET v4

For pre-v4 it's equivalent is <%= Html.Encode(...) %>

Answer 2

The problem was that I was using <%= %> (or even <%: %>) within a tag that had runat="sever".