Question

I am having trouble calling an external javascript function from my asp.net page

I have a file called user.js which I have this..

 UseThisNewThing:function () {
 alert("In Function External");
 }

My asp.net page references this file in the head tag..

<script src="Js/User.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now I wanna call this function via jquery so in the code behind I have this

 if (page != null && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(scriptName) && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(scriptCommands))
            {
                Type parentType = page.GetType();

                // Check to see if the include script exists already.
                if (!page.ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered(parentType, scriptName))
                {
                    page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(parentType, scriptName,
                        "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\njQuery(document).ready(function () {" + scriptCommands + "});</script>"); ;
                }
            }

where parentType is this.Page, scriptName="InitPage", and

scriptCommands=@"User.UseThisNewThing();"

I must be miossing something in this hook up beacuse I cannot get the alert to fire on page load

Answer 1

if the user is name of class than you scriptcommand will be

scriptCommands=@"new User().UseThisNewThing();"

you cannot call the function direcly without creating instance of class