Umbraco 7 Mismatched { and }? - partial-views

Question

I am using a partial view to list the top 5 children of a specific node.
This works, but only if I put a div before the
foreach
eg
#inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
<div class="title">Test</div>
<ul>
#{
var ow = #owCore.Initialise(1085);
<div> </div>
var node = Umbraco.Content(1105);
foreach (var item in node
.Children.Where("Visible")
.OrderBy("Id descending")
.Take(5)
)
{
<li>#item.pageTitle</li>
}
}
</ul>
produces the expected unsorted list.
However, if I remove the empty div
#inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
Test
<ul>
#{
var ow = #owCore.Initialise(1085);
var node = Umbraco.Content(1105);
foreach (var item in node
.Children.Where("Visible")
.OrderBy("Id descending")
.Take(5)
)
{
<li>#item.pageTitle</li>
}
}
The error I get is
Compiler Error Message: CS1513: } expected
Source Error:
Line 113: } Line 114: } Line 115:}
Clear looks like too few closing '}'
Presumably the div forces the closing }?
I have checked owCore (it's a library of functions I am building in App_Code : however, I have stripped this back and it's now doing nothing just to make sure there are matched curly brackets:
#using Umbraco
#using Umbraco.Core.Models
#using Umbraco.Web
#functions{
public static int Initialise(int siteDocID){
return 0;
}
}
However, if I remove the #owCore code from the partial view
#inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
Test
<ul>
#{
var node = Umbraco.Content(1105);
foreach (var item in node
.Children.Where("Visible")
.OrderBy("Id descending")
.Take(5)
)
{
<li>#item.pageTitle</li>
}
}
</ul>
All is ok again.
Does that mean it's definitely an issue with the owCore or simply something else tripping the issue with mismatched {}
I have checked the template calling this partial view and can't find a problem.
This doesn't make sense. Can anyone explain?
Thanks!

Answer 1

This is actually more of a razor question.
You start your code block with #{ and by doing that you don't need the # in front of owCore. Removing it will make it render even without the <div> as the razor parser is no longer confused by the #.