Question

This may be a very dumb question but I can’t seem to get it working. I use at many places the following syntax for dynamically binding a property of a control in aspx file to the resource entry, e.g.

<SomeFunnyControl Text="<%$ Resources : ResClass, ResEntry %>" />

I want to do a similar thing with a class containing some constants, something like

<SomeFunnyControl Text="<%= MyConstantsClass.MyStringConstant %>" />

But this doesn’t seem to work, it simply sets the text to the exact expression without evaluating it. I am using ASP.NET 3.5 btw.

I have tried the databinding approach but I get an HttpParseException saying

Databinding expressions are only
supported on objects that have a
DataBinding event.

Answer 1

This article: The CodeExpressionBuilder might be interesting/helpful (although written for ASP.NET 2.0).

It (seems) to enable you to write ... Text="<%$ Code: DateTime.Now %>" .... That might help, no? It is quite a bit of overhead, though.