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

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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John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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"Bob Rosen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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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
>
>