ASP.NET

ASP.NET - Directives

ASP.NET - Directives

ASP.NET directives are the instructional setting which is for registering a custom control and page language

ASP.NET has different types of directives such as 

  • Application Directives - These application directives are application-specific attributes. It provides at the top of global.aspx file
  • Assembly Directives  - Assembly directives link assembly to the page. These directives are found in “global.asax” pages for linking application-wide, page linking, or control linking files.
  • Control Directives - Control directives are used with user controls and in (.ascx) files
  • Implement Directives - Implement Directives indicates 
  1. Webpage
  2. Masterpage
  3. User control  must implement the specified
  • Import Directives - This indicates the namespace of a web page. If the import is specified to global.asax file. It is applied to the entire application.
  • Master Directive - It specifies  a page  file being master page
  • Output cache Directive - Output Cache Directives control the output caching of web pages.
  • Page Directives - Page Directives specify attributes specific to the page file.
  • Register Directives - The register Directives is sed for registering custom ad user controls
  • Reference Directives - This indicates another page or user control to be compiled and linked to the current page.