Question

I want to ask in which phase of Control Execution Lifecycle is the ‘Server-Side-Code written in aspx file’ being executed?

Is it before SaveState or after, I claim it’s in the rendering phase, is it true??

in aspx file if my code writen as

‘<%’

if(true) { rdlistAnswers.Items.Clear(); foreach (string item in myCollection) {     i.Value = item;     i.Text = item;     rdlistAnswers.Items.Add(i); } '%>' <asp:RadioButtonList ID='rdlistAnswers' runat='server'</asp:RadioButtonList> 

the changes made to the are rendered but not saved. but when write the tag as

<asp:RadioButtonList ID='rdlistAnswers' runat='server' OnPreRender='loadMe'</asp:RadioButtonList> 

-as loadMe is an event handler method in the aspx.cs file makes the same thing as code above- the changes are rendered and saved, so when I do changes in PreRender phase the state is saved but when I do it by placing the logic in the aspx file its not saved, this means -at least as I claim- that server-side code placed in aspx file executes in rendering phase, do you agree me???

Answer 1

Code written directly inside the aspx file will be executed at the end of Render Control in the ASP.NET page lifecycle.

I tested it precompiling an aspx file and using Reflector to look at the decompiled code.