Wednesday, September 23, 2009

ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

Step 1 : Asp page consist of both .aspx and .cs page . When the page hits first the Asp.Net engine coverts the HTML portion into a structured series of programmatically created web controls.

E.g : I created a page Default.aspx page and place a TextBox1 in .aspx page.When the page compiles for the first time.A auto generated class file created(WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\version\Temporary ASP.NET Files) its look like as follows

Consider a aspx page created like this.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    </br>
    What is your gender?
    <asp:TextBox ID="txtName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

  Corresponding .CS page is  


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    }
}


The Compiled page after first hit

aspTextbox


Note : the TextBox1 is created in the class file.

During the second hit onwards it takes from the corresponding page(i.e it won’t create a .cs page again)

The purpose of auto generated class is to create a control hierarchy.The control hierarchy for the previous page is


controlhierarchy copy


If you set Trace="true" .You can see the below image.


PageEventsControls


Step 2 : PreInit


  • Checks the IsPostBack property to determine whether this is the first time page is load.

  • Page event to set Theme , ie when the page before initialize.

Step 3 : Init

  • All control has been initialized in the order of controls in the control Hierarchy

Step 4 : InitComplete

  • After the page is been initialized.

Step 5 : PreLoad

  • Event before the page is loaded

Step 6 : Load

  • calls the onload() event method and set properties for all controls in the page

Step 7 : Control Events

  • button click ,SelectedIndexChanged etc

Step 8 : LoadComplete

  • All the controls in the page has been loaded.

Step 9 : PreRender

  • Event to take final changes to the content of the page or its control.After this event all the control moves to the IOStream into a HTML format

Step 10 : SaveStateComplete

  • View sate is changed for all controls and page for postback purpose by calling SaveViewState().

Step 11 : Render

  • This is not an event ,but control’s markup to send to browser.

Step 12 : UnLoad

  • Final clean up is happens

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