title: Unexpected character sequence for <!-- in Asp.net/VB
body: <p>I've inherited a VB website (I'm a C# developer by trade) and need to do some changes. On loading it into VS2010 it won't compile/run because it has a <code>&lt;!-- --&gt;</code> pair surrounding some code in the style section of each form and VS is saying this is an unexpected character sequence. </p>
  
  <p>I'm assuming it's a vb comment tag, but I've Googled it to no effect and would very much appreciate some help with either making VS accept them, or advice on what to change them to so the original intent is not lost. NB - they appear around 100 times in the code so the former solution would be preferred!</p>
  
  <p>I've tried <code>&lt;%--</code> which I use in C# but that doesn't appear to work either.</p>
  
  <p>Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;
          &lt;%=Session("PAGE_TITLE")%&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link href="../../css/sc_english.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;
      &lt;asp:Literal ID="stylesheet1" runat="server" /&gt;
      &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
  &lt;!--
  body {
      margin-left: 10px;
      margin-top: 0px;
      margin-right: 10px;
      margin-bottom: 0px;
  }
  --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>