Using scripts in a master page with ASP.NET MVC

Question

I\'m fairly new to ASP.NET MVC, and I\'m having a little trouble with scripts... in particular, I want to use jQuery in most pages, so it makes sense to put it in the master

Answer 1

Why not just point your master page at Google's js file hosting? Then even when it comes to deployment (assuming your site is Net facing) you can abuse possibly pre-cached jquery files?

Answer 2

I just use a slash(/). For Example:

<script src="/Script/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>

when the "jquery-1.4.1.js" file is in the Script directory of root. And it works perfectly.

Answer 3

I made some of what OJ mentions, I created a GoogleHelper class with this methods

public static string ReferenceGoogleAPI()
{
    var appSettings = new AppSettingsReader();
    string apiKey = appSettings.GetValue("GoogleApiKey", typeof(string)).ToString();
    return ReferenceGoogleAPI(apiKey);
}

public static string ReferenceGoogleAPI(string key)
{
    return "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=" + key + "\"></script>";
}

public static string ReferenceGoogleLibrary(string name, string version)
{
    return "<script type=\"text/javascript\">google.load(\"" + name + "\", \"" + version + "\");</script>";
}

Now I'm adding extra methods to get some ClientLocation data ;)

Answer 4

You can try Url.Content extension method with Razor syntax

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

Answer 5

I think the simplest way is to use the following, and it works in views to.

<script type="text/javascript" src="<%=ResolveUrl("~/Scripts/myscript.js") %>">

</script>