In ASP.NET, do inline expressions get executed before or after the code behind?

Question

Do ASP inline expressions <% ... %> get run on the server before or after the code in the code-behind is executed?

Answer 1

Inline code executes after prerender page in the asp.net page life cycle. Because of this there are certain things that it can run before and certain things it can run after. Read up on the page life cycle here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472(v=vs.100).aspx

The events that come after prerender are:

• PreRenderComplete
• SaveStateComplete
• Render
• Unload

So any code in the other page lifecycle events will execute first.

From Microsoft's documentation:

An embedded code block is server code that executes during the page's render phase.