making an inline C# call in external Javascript file

Question

With my javascript getting bigger and bigger, I want to clean up my ASPX File.

The problem is alot of my javascript involves a lot of inline C# calls. ie:

'<%=C# method call)%>'

But this doesn't seem to work when its tucked away in a .js file.

Is there a workaround so I can seperate my javascript into js files?

Answer 1

Certainly you cannot call C# from a .js file. C# code is executed on the server, not on the client. Your .js file is not parsed on the server.

Nothing should prevent you from putting actual JavaScript into a .js file, as opposed to, say, JavaScript that is dynamically emitted by server-side C# code.

If you have a lot of C# code that is generating JavaScript, you can still organize your code by using partial views (that's MVC terminology, but I'm sure there's something similar for standard ASP.Net).