Escaping ASP.NET Tags

If you're building ASP.NET code with CodeSmith Generator , you'll run into the problem that the <% tags that you want to output to your ASP.NET code are interpreted by CodeSmith Generator as CodeSmithtags instead. The solution is to escape the starting tags, replacing <% with <%%. This will be replaced with <% in the output, and not seen by CodeSmith Generator as an opening script tag.

Example

In this example we will escape the ASP.NET tags as shown in the following example:

<asp:FormView ID="FormView1" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" DataKeyNames="ProductID" RunAt="server">
  <ItemTemplate>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td align="right"><b>Product ID:</b></td>       
        <td><%# Eval("ProductID") %></td>
      </tr>
    </table>                 
  </ItemTemplate>                 
</asp:FormView>

As stated above to escape the eval statement (<%# Eval("ProductID") %>) all you need to do is write it as follows:

<asp:FormView ID="FormView1" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" DataKeyNames="ProductID" RunAt="server">
  <ItemTemplate>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td align="right"><b>Product ID:</b></td>       
        <td><%%# Eval("ProductID") %></td>
      </tr>
    </table>                 
  </ItemTemplate>                 
</asp:FormView>