Why doesn't linkButton change its commandArgument - even after creating a new instance and reassigning a new value?

Question

So I have a LinkButton called linkButton.

    protected LinkButton linkButton;

and inside a loop which gets every directory of a specified directory, I have this:

    linkButton = new LinkButton();
    linkButton.Text = DirInf.Name;
    linkButton.CommandArgument = DirInf.FullName;
    linkButton.Command += new CommandEventHandler(linkButton_Command);

Where DirInf is of type DirectoryInfo.

Now when I put:

        Response.Redirect("filebrowser.aspx?dir=" + linkButton.CommandArgument);
        linkButton = new LinkButton();

inside the function linkButton_Command, linkButton.CommandArgument seems to always be "C:\Windows," which so happens to be the last value linkButton.CommandArgument was assigned.

But I created a new instance of it - but the value still retains...

I'm quite puzzled...

Answer 1

Response.Redirect will throw a ThreadAbortException, so your assignment is never actually taking place. I'm curious as to when you were testing the value again as well, given the way that ASP.NET state works... was it on the next request?

I admit to being somewhat confused as to what you're actually doing. Could you provide a short but complete example (page + codebehind) which demonstrates the problem?