OnDataBinding vs Inline: pros, cons and overhead

Question

I thought I would ask this question to see why many examples and people prefer to use inline databinding in the aspx code vs implementing an OnDataBinding event when using W

Answer 1

I much prefer the opposite. I prefer to keep my code-behind limited to procedural code, and keep all my declarative code in my Aspx page. In your example above, the literal is absolutely declarative and therefore (by my preference) would not belong in code-behind. Much more robust functionality generally goes in my code-behind, and I don't want my developers to be cluttered by having to sift through a bunch of initialization lines when trying to understand it.