Where should stuff be done in an ASP.NET page?

Question

I\'m very new to ASP.NET and, after beating my head on a few problems, I\'m wondering if I\'m doing things wrong (I\'ve got a bad habit of doing that). I\'m interested in le

Answer 1

The links posted by various folks are very helpful indeed - the ASP.NET page life cycle really isn't always easy to grok and master!

On nugget of advice - I would recommend preferring the overridden methods vs. the "magically" attached methods, e.g. prefer the

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)

over the

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

Why? Simple: in the overridden methods, you can specify yourself if and when the base method will be called:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{ 
    base.OnLoad(e);
    // your stuff
}

or:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{ 
    // your stuff
    base.OnLoad(e);
}

or even:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{ 
    // some of your stuff
    base.OnLoad(e);
    // the rest of your stuff
}

or even:

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{ 
    // your stuff
    // not call the base.OnLoad at all
}

You don't have that flexibility in the Page_Load() version.

Marc