What happened to Eval, Execute and ExecuteGlobal

[Guest]

I have been trying to get find where the simple Eval function that was such a
great little function in asp has gone. There does not appear to be any
replacement. Is this possible??

I was using this in a number areas in my asp app and when I have gone to
upgrade I can't seem to find any similiar functionaility - There must be
something out there?

I noticed that datalist has an Eval - is this similiar - it appears to
evaulate things at run-time - could this be used as a replacement.

I can't believe that it is impossible - you are meant to be able to create
web controls - and if I am correct that the datalist has an eval, than it
should be possible to buid Eval functionality into any control - just can't
find anything on this one.

Any help would be great.

 

[Lucas Tam]

I was using this in a number areas in my asp app and when I have gone
to upgrade I can't seem to find any similiar functionaility - There
must be something out there?

Is there a reason to use the Eval function at all??? When you use such a
function, code is not compiled, thus making it slower.

I can't believe that it is impossible - you are meant to be able to
create web controls - and if I am correct that the datalist has an
eval, than it should be possible to buid Eval functionality into any
control - just can't find anything on this one.

You can use CodeDom:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dynamicCode/DynamicCode.htm

 

[Kevin Spencer]

ASP is a procedural scripting technology, and the eval() function makes
sense in a procedural scripting technology. It does NOT make sense in an
object-oriented, compiled technology.

Even though ASP and ASP.Net have some things in common, they are actually
quite different. If you try to use ASP.Net like ASP, you will have great
difficulty. I know it is hard to adapt to a new programming paradigm, but
there are only 2 real choices: (1) Learn the new programming paradigm, or
(2) stick to ASP.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.

 

[Bruce Barker]

only javascript.net still supports the eval (as its part of the language).
there are currently no ms scripting solutionas available for .net, maybe
sometime in the future.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)