ASP.NET MVC 4 Bug: HttpParseException: Unexpected "this" keyword after "@" character.

After upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to ASP.NET MVC 4, my page failed to load with the following error message:

HttpParseException: Unexpected "this" keyword after "@" character.

Here is the failing code block. The exception occurs on line 5:

	<head>
	@using (profiler.Step("<head> rendering"))
	{
	<title>@ViewBag.Title - MVC MiniProfiler Demo</title>
	@this.TimeScript("Our CSS",
	@<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />)
	}
	</head>

This seems to be a bug in Razor V2 as mentioned here: http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/458. The ASP.NET team decided not to fix this, so you have to use a workaround.

By adding some extra ‘()’ the error goes away:

	<head>
	@using (profiler.Step("<head> rendering"))
	{
	<title>@ViewBag.Title - MVC MiniProfiler Demo</title>
	(@this.TimeScript("Our CSS",
	@<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />))
	}
	</head>

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