Question

I am trying to save all the controls from one WebForm using a serialized Dictionary (controlId – string, controlValue – string). Next i want to deserialize that Dictionary and dynamically fill the controls with their values.

The problem is that some of my controls have AutoPostBack true and also event handlers. Is there a way to dynamically call these event handlers? I want to avoid another switch by control’s id.

Ex:

foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in dict)
{
    Control c = findControlRecursive(Page, kvp.Key);
    if (c != null)
    {
        switch (c.GetType().Name)
        {
            case "TextBox":
                ((TextBox)c).Text = kvp.Value;
                if (((TextBox)c).AutoPostBack) .......

EDIT:

Let’s say that I have 10 different forms. each has about 50 controls. I want to add/edit a set of data. I try to avoid tables in database with columns for each control, that’s why I want to use serialization.

Answer 1

I found it later… i was looking for:

if (((TextBox)c).AutoPostBack) (c as IPostBackDataHandler).RaisePostDataChangedEvent();