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><a href="@item.Url">@item.pageTitle</a></li>
    }



}   
</ul>

produces the expected unsorted list.

However, if I remove the empty div

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
<div class="title">Test</div>

    <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><a href="@item.Url">@item.pageTitle</a></li>
        }

    }   
</ul>

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
<div class="title">Test</div>

    <ul>
    @{



        var node = Umbraco.Content(1105);


        foreach (var item in node
                    .Children.Where("Visible")
                    .OrderBy("Id descending")
                 .Take(5)
                )
        {

            <li><a href="@item.Url">@item.pageTitle</a></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!