Thanks for your help, Trevor. Its sorted with the help of the URL you
posted.
"Trevor Benedict R" <> wrote in message
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> Checkout
>
> http://www.extremeexperts.com/Net/FA...ringTwice.aspx
>
> Regards
>
> Trevor Benedict R
> MCSD
>
> ----- RAJ wrote: -----
>
> Posting this thread again, can somebody please help me with this.
Thanks.
>
> This event appears to be invoked twice for absolutely no reason on
only one
> of my ASP.Net web user controls. Although I've now overcome the
problem by
> overriding the base classes OnLoad routine, I could never figure out
why
> this event was being invoked twice.
>
> Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
> 'Put user code to initialize the page here
>
> End Sub
>
> It inherits from the following superclass:
> System.Web.UI.UserControl
>
> This is the scenario:
>
> When this 'Page_Load' routine was invoked; the call stack as soon as
the
> procedure begins shows (when non-user code was viewed) that the base
classes
> OnLoad routine invoked (by doing what ever it does) it.
>
> The strange thing happened when the routine was exiting; I even
removed ALL
> of the code from the routine and debugged it whilst dissassembly was
shown,
> and as soon as the routine exited (via the assembler instruction RET
4) the
> routine would IMMEDIATELY invoke again!!!
>
> INFACT, the routine didn't even exit! it immediately went back to the
top of
> the routine and ran again.
>
> The second time it would reach the end of the procedure (instruction
RET 4
> again) and would correctly return back to the calling method
(OnLoad).
>
> This appeared to be completely unpredictable behaviour; as the
containing
> code was getting executed twice (since i am expecting only 1
page_load per
> build/teardown per object).
>
> I can only theorise that somewhere, unless its a logic error of my
own (but
> I tested it in a seperate ASP Page, with just the user control
removing
> LOADS of code to test it; still did it) that its unpredictable
behaviour
> caused by event handling references.
>
> What I would like to know is this:
>
> Is there any advantages/disadvantages to just overiding the base
classes
> OnLoad routine?
>
> One obvious advantage is you can chose when to invoke the base
classes
> OnLoad routine to continue normal processing. But I can't find any
> disadvantages!
>
> Secondly, has anyone else experienced such behaviour?
>
>
>
>
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