The page lifecycle for controls(order contructed from a page)

Question

Ok, I have not been able to really find an answer to this on the internet.. Maybe someone here can help me.

For example, lets say I have a page and 2 custom controls on that page. During what event on page do these controls get constructed. When does their page_init get called?

Also, for these 2 custom controls, do they both get constructed before either of the page_init events get called?

I've done some testing with a debugger and such, but I'm wanting a definite answer to these questions. I'm not wanting to make code that works only sometimes.

Answer 1

The official page in the documentation describes the page lifecycle in details, but a picture is worth a thousand words :

If I understand correctly, controls are constructed between the PreInit and Init of the page. Thus, controls' Init methods are called before the page's Init method.

According to the schema, Construct and FrameworkInitialize are called on each control before the Init event are fired, which means that all controls should be constructed and available when entering a specific control's Init method.