Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 7541

<%$, <%@, <%=, <%# ... what's the deal?

I've programmed in both classic ASP and ASP.NET, and I see different tags inside of the markup for server side code.

I've recently come across a good blog on MSDN that goes over the difference between:

(<%# is evaluated only at databind, and <%= is evaluated at render), but I also see:

I believe <%@ loads things like assemblies and perhaps <%$ loads things from config files? I'm not too sure.

I was just wondering if anyone could clarify all of this for me and possibly explain why it's important to create so many different tags that seemingly have a similar purpose?

Upvotes: 230

Views: 34960

Answers (2)

Jose Basilio
Jose Basilio

Reputation: 51468

Upvotes: 327

Michael Burr
Michael Burr

Reputation: 340178

You've covered 2 of them (<%# is evaluated only at databind, and <%= is evaluated at render), and the answer for "<%@" is that it's compiler directives (ie., stuff like what you'd put on a compiler's command line).

I don't know about "<%$".

Upvotes: 6

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