ASP.NET - Page Postbacks and event handling

Question

Hi,
Can anyone suggest me good reading materials on the internals of how ASP.NET handles page postback and events?

-Justin Samuel.

Answer 1

Please see How postback works in ASP.NET:

In this article, we will take a closer look at how ASP.NET pages post back to themselves, and how to customize this feature in our web applications.

Answer 2

I would absolutely read Microsoft's primer on the ASP.NET page lifecycle. Knowing the page lifecycle well will save you many headaches!

Answer 3

Try to read this articles:

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1045191.html http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_events.asp http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/15190-ASP-NET-Page-Life-Cycle.aspx

Answer 4

If you are just learning ASP.NET, check out ASP.NET MVC as an alternative which will make a lot more sense coming from other web platforms and doesn't have the added abstraction of events, state, and postbacks which http wasn't exactly designed to have.