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Many of the comments I've received in the various dynamic controls entries I've written have been questions for help with a specific scenario. A lot of those scenarios are similar. One in particular I keep hearing is something as follows: The user is...( read more ) Read More...

A long time ago I published one of my first blog entries, TRULY Understanding ViewState . And what experience it has been. It was pretty popular with commenters, so much so I decided to spin off a whole series of articles, TRULY Understanding Dynamic...( read more ) Read More...

I recently received a comment in my Truly Understanding ViewState article about the "ArrayList of controls in the control hierarchy that need to be explicitly invoked by the page class during the raise postback event stage of the life cycle." Such is...( read more ) Read More...

I receive a lot of comments and emails stemming from my series of articles on understanding the nuances of dealing with dynamic controls . It's interesting that so many of these requests revolve around very similar problems. One such theme is where you...( read more ) Read More...

Part 4 of my series on Truly Understanding Dynamic Controls in ASP.NET. This part covers two of the major scenarios in which you may be loading controls or user controls dynamically, and some of the posting, viewstate, and ID related issues you have probably ran into....( read more ) Read More...

ViewState is a very misunderstood animal. I would like to help put an end to the madness by attempting to explain exactly how the ViewState mechanism works, from beginning to end, and from many different use cases, such as declared controls vs. dynamic controls....( read more ) Read More...