how to call a variable in code behind to aspx page

Question

i know i have seen this but cant recall the correct way of doing it... basically i have a string variable called "string clients" in my .cs file.. but i wasn't to be able to pass it to my aspx page something like

<%=clients%>   

please correct me, i do not recall or not sure how to do this. (new to c#) and when i googled it.. it was not clear.. or not many of these out there.. searched as

"asp.net c# <%= %> not consistent results.. maybe because i do not know how to call these..

Answer 1

The field must be declared public for proper visibility from the ASPX markup. In any case, you could declare a property:

 private string clients; public string Clients { get { return clients; } }  

UPDATE: It can also be declared as protected, as stated in the comments below.

Then, to call it on the ASPX side:

<%=Clients%>

Note that this won't work if you place it on a server tag attribute. For example:

<asp:Label runat="server" Text="<%=Clients%>" />

This isn't valid. This is:

<div><%=Clients%></div>

Answer 2

In your code behind file, have a public variable

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page {     public string clients;      protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)     {         // your code that at one points sets the variable         this.clients = "abc";     } } 

now in your design code, just assign that to something, like:

<div>     <p><%= clients %></p> </div> 

or even a javascript variable

<script type="text/javascript">      var clients = '<%= clients %>';  </script>