Question

A ChildClass user control I’m working with has a chain of parent classes, ultimately inheriting from System.Web.UI.UserControl.

public BasestClass : AnotherClassExtendingUserControl
{
    private void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // do some stuff
    }
}

public BaseClass : BasestClass
{
    // no Page_Load
}

Two parent classes up the chain, Page_Load is marked private. The ‘middle’ class obviously doesn’t override it, but I need to add something to the Page_Load of the ChildClass user control.

public ChildClass : BaseClass
{
    // think I need to override Page_Load here,
    // but there is no acceptable method to override
}

What can I do to get into the Page_Load of ChildClass? There are controls in that control that I need to manipulate that do not exist in BaseClass or BasestClass.

Answer 1

The Page_Load (or Load) event gets raised during execution of the OnLoad event method, so I would suggest moving your logic there. You shouldn’t have a problem overriding the OnLoad method from your child class.