Question

I need some guidelines about building the code behind of my pages correctly. I mean, I’m building in asp.net for a year now, and mostly using the Page_Load event. (and ofcourse “event handling” the events triggered by the user’s actions). I know about the page life cycle and the order of events that happens when a page is requested etc.. . Is it normal that, generally, in a data-driven page, for example, I’m not using any of the “pre_render”, “page_unload”, “pre_init” etc.. event handlers? or am I missing something here? any guidelines would help me a lot, including links or whatever you think that would instruct me well. thanks.

Answer 1

You are not missing anything.

Most asp.net code does not use these events, and you should only be using the handlers if you need to.

For example – if you really need to change the output of the page after all control event handlers (for example button clicks) have fired, use the pre_render event. In my experience this is a rare thing to need.

Many of the event are there just in case you need them.