What are these called in ASP.NET <%: %>?

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What are these called in ASP.NET?

And what are the different variations? How are each of them used?

I agree that it's hard to find that kind of words in SO or even Google. — Win, May 13 '13 at 23:51

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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The generic term for the tags like <% %> is "nuggets", with the exception of <%@ %> which is called a directive.

How each nugget is used can be found at .NET "code nugget blocks"?.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community

answered May 14 '13 at 00:01

Jimmy

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '13 at 23:37

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That's a code block. The version with the # is used for data binding. They basically allow you to embed C# code into your aspx page.

MSDN has a good article on code blocks here, and a good article on data binding expressions here.

answered May 13 '13 at 23:37

Abe Miessler

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