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I am looking at the old REPORTCENTER onet.xml file in SharePoint 2010's 14 hive (SharePoint Root). I noticed the following in this file:

    <Configuration ID="1" Name="Blank">
        <ExecuteUrl Url="_layouts/[%=System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID%]/settings.aspx" />
    </Configuration>

The [%=%] syntax jumped out at me. I assume these are "dynamic" tokens used to access static properties/methods on public classes. The question is, are these run at provisioning time, or at runtime? Also, is this token syntax only available within the <ExecuteUrl> element, or is it available from other elements? Is there documentation on this syntax?

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This isn't necessarily CAML but rather a call into a .NET class so I removed those references from your question. – Alex Angas Aug 29 '11 at 9:27
I've only ever seen the square bracket syntax myself in CAML (the angle bracket & percentage symbol being the standard ASP.NET escape sequence). – James Love Oct 12 '11 at 7:22

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The [%= is essentially the same thing as using <%= to insert a line of .NET code into an ASP.NET page. There it is simply grabbing the value of "System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID" which I believe it to identify the language code (i.e. 1033 for English). The only examples where I see that this appears for SharePoint is in the XML template files for site definitions, etc.

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