Tea-Driven Development » alt.net http://blog.mattwynne.net Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:07:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Avoid Spaghetti Execution with the Judicious use of Inline Scripting http://blog.mattwynne.net/2007/10/30/avoid-spaghetti-execution-with-the-judicious-use-of-inline-scripting/ http://blog.mattwynne.net/2007/10/30/avoid-spaghetti-execution-with-the-judicious-use-of-inline-scripting/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:55:03 +0000 Matt http://blog.mattwynne.net/2007/10/30/avoid-spaghetti-execution-with-the-judicious-use-of-inline-scripting/ Rob Conery has kicked up a bit of a stink posting about the use of inline scripting in modern ASP.NET apps.

I may post more on this subject when I have time, but I had to just weigh in with my support for disciplined use of this technique, which can save you hundreds of pointless lines of code and execution cycles in a large app if used wisely.

One trick we use is to replace all those silly asp:LinkButton tags with a good ole anchor tag, and a call to a special utility class called LinkBuilder which knows how the site’s URLs hang together, like so: 

<a href="<%= LinkBuilder.Show(catalogueItem) %>">Cancel</a>
This sort of markup can hardly be acused of being spaghetti code (the LinkBuilder method has a single line inside it), and means that we avoid what you might call ‘spaghetti execution’ when you actually come to spin the thing up.

Think about what a sequence diagram of the equivalent use of an asp:LinkButton with a wired OnClick event would look like. Eugh.

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