Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 9. Control Life Cycle, Events, and Postback

• Control Life Cycle

• Events in Server Controls

• Postback Architecture

• Mapping a Postback Event to a Server Event—The IPostBackEventHandler Interface

• Optimizing Event Implementation

• Generating Client-Side Script for Postback

• IPostBackDataHandler and Postback Data

• Putting It Together—The Login Example

• Exposing Other Semantic Events—The HitTracker Example

In Chapter 2, we described how ASP.NET recreates a page and its control tree upon each request. In this chapter, we’ll begin where Chapter 2 left off. We’ll look at the life cycle of a control—that is, we’ll examine what a control does at various stages of processing an HTTP request. The control life cycle is the most important architectural concept that ...