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I have a webform, with a statically declared usercontrol in it...
the usercontrol is actually a webcontrol ( inherits from class
WebControl)
this control has some child controls created dynamically at the event:
CreateChildControls
obviously this event is fired before the viewstate is loaded, so i
cannot save or load anything from the viewstate.
the question is: how can i use the viewstate from inside the
usercontrol? Or if i cannot, what is the best practice to save and
load volatile data
between postbacks from within the usercontrol?

Implement INamingContainer interface in your webcontrol and override
LoadViewState and SaveViewState to save the state of your control.
HTH
Ashish

"Amr Al Jarhi" <> wrote in message
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> I have a webform, with a statically declared usercontrol in it...
> the usercontrol is actually a webcontrol ( inherits from class
> WebControl)
> this control has some child controls created dynamically at the event:
> CreateChildControls
> obviously this event is fired before the viewstate is loaded, so i
> cannot save or load anything from the viewstate.
> the question is: how can i use the viewstate from inside the
> usercontrol? Or if i cannot, what is the best practice to save and
> load volatile data
> between postbacks from within the usercontrol?

Thank you Ashish for your reply. This approach was suggested to me, but
to my specific purpose I have found that it is a little complicated. I
thought that inheriting from webcontrol would be very similar to
inheriting from usercontrol. My problem was solved by inheriting from
usercontrol instead. I guess inheriting from the webcontrol class is
not very usefull, unless I want to inherit from a specific webcontrol,
like textbox, and utilize the base functionality. But obviuosly
inheriting from the general webcontrol class does not give any
particular advantage that I am aware of over inheriting from user
control.