I am trying to put this in my markup:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<%$ AppSettings:proxyScriptUrl %>"></script>
But for some reason this is not accepted. What am I doing wrong here?
The requirement is that I do not use a helper method but that the expressionbuilder is used in the markup.
According to the documentation, that's not allowed:
If you want to use an expression as a static value on your page or control, you use an expression as part of an ASP.NET server control. A typical strategy is to add a Literal control and set its Text property to an expression. For example, to place a copyright notice at the bottom of every page you could use the following:
<p align="center">
<asp:Literal runat="server" text="<%$ AppSettings: copyright %>"/>
</p>
This might help you if want to do it all in the aspx file:
<script type='text/javascript' src='<asp:Literal id="literal1" runat="server" text="<%$ AppSettings: jsSource %>" />'></script>
Note the unpleasant single quotes in the text variable - trying to us escaped double quotes results in "Badly formed script tag" errors.
Edit: apologies - I've swapped the order around this does work.
When I do this I usually create a helper class I like to call Config and put a static property on there for the App Settings in question.
Then your code would become:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<%=Config.ProxyScriptUrl%>"/>
Some of the other benefits of this is that if I decide to move the ProxyScriptUrl to a different configuration mechanism I only have to modify the one class. Your config class might look like:
public static class Config
{
public static string ProxyScriptUrl
{
get
{
return WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["proxyScriptUrl "];
}
}
}