I just recently started trying out T4MVC and I like the idea of eliminating magic strings.

However, when trying to use it on my master page for my stylesheets, I get this:

<link href="<%: Links.Content.site_css %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

rending like this:

<link href="&lt;%: Links.Content.site_css %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Whereas these render correctly:

<link href="<%: Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css") %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="<%: Links.Content.site_css + "" %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

It appears that, as long as I have double quotes inside of the code segment, it works. But when I put anything else in there, it escapes the leading "less than".

Is this something I can turn off? Is this a bug?

Edit:

This does not happen for <script src="..." ... />, nor does it happen for <a href="...">.

Edit 2:

Minimal case:

<link href="<%: string.Empty %>" />

vs

<link href="<%: "" %>" />