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would be bad. Using Html.Encode prevents this from happening. The other Html helper methods, such as ActionLink, already encode output, so you should use Html.Encode whenever one of the other helpers isn’t used. Notice that the code for the foreach loop is enclosed in <% and %> symbols so that it is treated as code and not markup.
Next, you’ll want to be able to navigate to the Customer List page from the main menu, so open your MasterPage, Site.Master, and add the Customers ActionLink like this:
<ul id="menu">
<li><%= Html.ActionLink("Customers", "Index", "Customer")%></li> <li><%= Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")%></li> <li><%= Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")%></li>
</ul>
The parameters to the new ActionLink, from left to right, indicate that the text for the anchor will be Customers, and ASP.NET will invoke the Index action method on the CustomerController class when the user clicks the link. Figure
