ASP.NET Page Life Cycle order and events Page life cycle is very important concept to understand while working with asp.net, what are the stages we can read the view state values and what is the last event where can write back our view state again. When to load the dynamic controls and when to check the values of dynamically added controls, It is impossible to work without knowing the basics of page life cycle. In this article we will see the different stages and event orders as well as what we can do in different events and why they are necessary.
While developing custom controls, we must be familiar with the page life cycle in order to correctly initialize controls, populate control properties with view-state data, and run control behavior code. The life cycle of a control is based on the page life cycle, and the page raises many of the events that we need to handle in a custom control
Page Life-Cycle Stages:
Before understanding the events and their roles, we will try to understand different stages:
Page request: When user types any URL in browser and press hit button, page request occurs before the page life cycle begins, when the page is requested by a user, ASP.NET determines whether the page needs to be parsed and compiled (therefore beginning the life of a page), or whether a cached version of the page can be sent in response without running the page.
Start: In this stage, page properties such as Request and Response are set, and determines whether the request is a PostBack or a new request of the page and sets the IsPostBack property, UICulture property is also set in this stage.
Page initialization: During this stage, each control's UniqueID property is set, any themes are also applied to the page. If the current request is a postback, the postback data has not yet been loaded and control property values have not been restored to the values from view state.
Load: In this stage, if the current request is a postback, control properties are loaded with information recovered from view state and control state.
Validation: During validation, the Validate method of all validator controls is called, which sets the IsValid property of individual validator controls and of the page.
Life-cycle Events Within each stage of the life cycle of a page, the page raises events that you can handle to run your own code. For control events, you bind the event handler to the event, either declaratively using attributes such as onclick, or in code.
PreInit: Use this event for
Init: Raised after all controls have been initialized and any skin settings have been applied. Use this event to read or initialize control properties.
InitComplete: Raised by the Page object. Use this event for processing tasks that require all initialization be complete.
PreLoad:
Control events:
PreRender: Before this event occurs:
SaveStateComplete: Before this event occurs, ViewState has been saved for the page and for all controls. Any changes to the page or controls at this point will be ignored.
Render:
Unload:
This event occurs for each control and then for the page. In controls, use this event to do final cleanup for specific controls, such as closing control-specific database connections.
For the page itself, use this event to do final cleanup work, such as closing open files and database connections, or finishing up logging or other request-specific tasks.
Note: During the unload stage, the page and its controls have been rendered, so you cannot make further changes to the response stream. If you attempt to call a method such as the Response.Write method, the page will throw an exception.
Event Arguments
Server-based ASP.NET page and control events follow a standard .NET Framework pattern for event-handler methods. All events pass two arguments: an object representing the object that raised the event, and an event object containing any event-specific information. The second argument is usually of type EventArgs, but for some controls is of a type specific to that control. For example, for an ImageButton Web server control, the second argument is of type ImageClickEventArgs, which includes information about the coordinates where the user has clicked.
Postback and Non-Postback Events in Server Controls
In server controls, certain events, typically click events, cause the page to be posted back immediately to the server. Change events in HTML server controls and Web server controls, such as the TextBox control, do not immediately cause a post. Instead, they are raised the next time a post occurs.
Note: If the browser supports it, validation controls can check user input using client script, without a round trip to the server. For details, see Validating User Input in ASP.NET Web Pages. After a page has been posted back, the page's initialization events (PageInit and PageLoad) are raised, and then control events are processed. You should not create application logic that relies on the change events being raised in a specific order unless you have detailed knowledge of page event processing. For details, see ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Overview.
If it useful for your application, you can specify that change events cause the page to post. Web server controls that support a change event include an AutoPostBack property. When this property is true, the control's change event causes the page to post immediately, without waiting for a click event. For example, by default, a CheckBox control's CheckedChanged event does not cause the page to be submitted. However, if you set the control's AutoPostBack property to true, as soon as a user clicks the check box, the page is sent to the server for processing.
Forwarded Events
Web server controls such as the Repeater, DataList, GridView, FormView, and DetailsView controls can contain button controls that themselves raise events. For example, each row in a GridView control can contain one or more buttons created dynamically by templates. Rather than each button raising an event individually, events from the nested controls are forwarded to the container control. The container in turn raises a generic ItemCommand event with parameters that allow you to discover which individual control raised the original event. By responding to this single event, you can avoid having to write individual event handlers for child controls. The ItemCommand event includes the two standard event arguments, an object referencing the source of the event and an event object containing event-specific information.
Binding Page Events
ASP.NET pages raise life-cycle events, by default, you can bind page events to methods using a naming convention of Pageeventname. For example, to create a handler for the page's Load event, you can create a method named PageLoad. At run time, ASP.NET will find methods based on this naming convention and automatically perform the binding between the event and the method. You can use the convention of Page_eventname for any event exposed by the Page class.
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