asp.netserver-tags

<%$, <%@, <%=, <%# ... what's the deal?


I've programmed in both classic ASP and ASP.NET, and I see different tags inside of the markup for server side code.

I've recently come across a good blog on MSDN that goes over the difference between:

(<%# is evaluated only at databind, and <%= is evaluated at render), but I also see:

I believe <%@ loads things like assemblies and perhaps <%$ loads things from config files? I'm not too sure.

I was just wondering if anyone could clarify all of this for me and possibly explain why it's important to create so many different tags that seemingly have a similar purpose?


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