asp.net dynamically added user control saving values after postback

Question

Here\'s my issue. I have a usercontrol that I want to allow users to add as many instances of as necessary using a button click (each time a button is clicked, I want to ad

Answer 1

I had a nightmare of a time trying to pull this off on an old project. In the intermediate time, I've discovered that I know a lot less about web development than I thought (reading this website is a great way to humble yourself on a daily -- if not hourly -- basis). In that project, Page.IsPostBack was totally useless to me because I had dynamically instantiated the controls.

That being said, the best thing I can suggest is to consider using the Session variable. If you have a class (or a collection of a class) that represents the data you capture from the page, then perhaps it'd be easiest to store values in that class/collection to improve code readability, and then write it out to the Session.