Custom Control loads a user control; Postback events are not triggered

Question

Hello all -

I have a custom control (compiled as a DLL) which loads a user control. (i.e, the custom control does a LoadControl) In the user control is a button and a textbox. I wire up the button's click event.

I type in a value into the text box. When I click the button, the page does a postback. My user control knows that a postback occured because Page.IsPostBack = true. However, the click event of the button is never fired and my text box has also lost the value that I typed in.

Anyone have any thoughts as to what might be going on?

EDIT: I did a test on this and took SharePoint out of the picture; I was able to reproduce it so I removed all references to SharePoint.

Answer 1

If you are databinding, you need to check that you are only doing so on !Page.IsPostBack when you databind, you wipe out any "saved" state from the postback.

Answer 2

Sounds like you're not recreating the control on postback. You will need to add the control during Page_Init for the view state to be loaded.

Answer 3

If you are dynamically loading the user control, you have to reload it on each page load (postback or not) in order for the .net processor to know where to wire up the submit event.

Answer 4

One way to load the User Control is to override CreateChildControl, call base.CreateChildControls and then call your LoadControl method. If you need to place the UserControl is a specific location, place a PlaceHolder on the page and add your control to the place holders control collection.

You can also just add the user control directly to the markup.

Register the control as such:

<%@ Register Src="~/path/ControlName.ascx" TagName="tagName" TagPrefix="myPrefix" %>

and then add it in as follows:

<myPrefix:tagName ID="myId" runat="server"/>