Can you use constants in .aspx files?

[Bob Rosen]

In InterDev, I frequently defined constants for my data-table field names,
then used #include statements to refer to the file(s) with those
declarations and substituted the constant declaration in any place where I
needed to refer to the field name. Is there any way to do the same sort of
thing in the <%# Container.DataItem (<field name>) %> references inside
..aspx files, for example, when creating DataLists (i.e. use a string
constant instead of a hard-coded string)?

Bob Rosen

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

Why not just add them to the application object, or put them in web.config
and read them in from there. Or you can code your global.asax as a class
and use shared (static) values accesible from anywhere in your web app..

<%@ Application Classname="MyGlobals" %>
<script language="VB" runat="server">

public shared UserCount as integer = 1

Sub Application_OnStart()
End Sub

Sub Session_OnStart()
End Sub

Sub Session_OnEnd()
End Sub

Sub Application_OnEnd()
End Sub
</script>
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Regards

John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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In InterDev, I frequently defined constants for my data-table field names,
then used #include statements to refer to the file(s) with those
declarations and substituted the constant declaration in any place where I
needed to refer to the field name. Is there any way to do the same sort of thing in the <%# Container.DataItem (<field name>) %> references inside
.aspx files, for example, when creating DataLists (i.e. use a string
constant instead of a hard-coded string)?

Bob Rosen