Best way to access properties of my code behind class from the markup in ASP.NET

Question

This might be a really dumb question but I\'m learning .NET, so I\'m quite clueless...

Let\'s say I have two files default.aspx and the associated default.a

Answer 1

You can do any coding that you'd like to do directly in the ASPX file, rather than using codebehind. So, to accomplish what I think you want to do, you would have...

<% var MyObject = new MyObject();
   Response.Write(myObj.Awesome()); %>

However, this is really not recommended. Codebehind is the suggested "best practice" way of doing things, because this separates your code from your markup, which is fundamental in any good architecture. I would recommend using something like what John Saunders posted in order to avoid databinding, but you should really consider manipulating your controls in the codebehind using the lifecycle events rather than outputting object properties directly to your HTML. For example, if you were trying to output some text, then do something like

var literal = new LiteralControl(myObject.Awesome());
myPanel.Controls.Add(literal);