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Sarah Weinberger
Sarah Weinberger

Reputation: 15571

ASPx Inline Expressing <%= %> equates at runtime to %3c%25=

I have a solution with a couple of projects. Both use inline expression syntax, such as:

<p><a runat="server" href="<%=MyProject.Global.PathSite %>">My Link</a></p>

Assuming that MyProject.Global.PathSite equates to

public const String Whatever = @"http://www.myurl.com/";

At both design time and at runtime project A, the first project that I created in the solution, evaluates the expression correctly, while project B, the second project that I created a couple of months later, evaluates the expression as

%3c%25=MyProject.Global.PathSite%20%25%3e

Basically, ASP.Net treads <% %> as HTML text rather than a tag that it should process, while the second one does not.

Any thoughts?

UPDATE: I reworked the wording of the question to better make sense.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 138

Answers (2)

Sarah Weinberger
Sarah Weinberger

Reputation: 15571

After suffering with this issue for a couple of weeks, I finally figured out the problem.

The problem is that you cannot use <% %> in any tag, where the runat attribute is server. You can use <% %> on client side tags only.

For tags that are runat server, then simply go to the Page_Load event and enter the property through the code behind.

Upvotes: 1

Lars Anundsk&#229;s
Lars Anundsk&#229;s

Reputation: 1355

Try putting <%=MyProjectName.ClassName.PublicProperty %> in a literal with runar=server, you could do that with both in fact.

Upvotes: 0

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