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ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

Posted by Santhi Maadhaven in Articles | Web Development on March 04, 2005 Tags: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Events, ASP.NET Page Execution, ASP.NET Page Life Cycle, ASP.NET Stages, C# In this article, we will see the stages of execution of the ASP.NET Page.
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Each request for an .aspx page that hits IIS is handed over to HTTP Pipeline. HTTP Pipeline is a chain of managed objects that sequentially process the request and convert it to plain HTML text content. The start point of HTTP Pipeline is the HttpRuntime class. The ASP.NET infrastructure creates each instance of this class per AppDomain hosted within the worker process. HttpRuntime class picks up an HttpApplication object from an internal pool and sets it to work on the request. It finds out what class has to handle the request. The association between the resources and handlers are stored in the configurable file of the application. In web.config and also in machine.config you will find these lines in <httpHandlers> section. If you run through the following program, it will be much easier to follow <add verb="*" path="*.aspx" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory"/> This extension can be associated with HandlerClass or HandlerFactory class. HttpApplication object gets the page object that implements the IHttpHandler Interface. The process of generating the output to the browser is started when the object calls ProcessRequest method. Page Life Cycle Once the HTTP page handler class is fully identified, the ASP.NET runtime calls the handler's ProcessRequest to start the process. This implementation begins by calling the method FrameworkInitialize(), which builds the control trees for the page. This is a protected and virtual member of TemplateControl class, class from which page itself derives. Next the processRequest() makes page transits various phases: initialization, loading of viewstate and postback data, loading of page's user code and execution postback server-side events. Then page enters in render mode, the viewstate is updated and HTML generated is sent to the output console. Finally page is unloaded and request is considered completely served. Stages and corresponding events in the life cycle of the ASP.NET page cycle: Stage Page Initialization View State Loading Postback data processing Page Loading PostBack Change Notification PostBack Event Handling Page Pre Rendering Phase View State Saving Page Rendering Page Unloading Events/Method Page_Init LoadViewState LoadPostData Page_Load RaisePostDataChangedEvent RaisePostBackEvent Page_PreRender SaveViewState Page_Render Page_UnLoad

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Some of the events listed above are not visible at the page level. It will be visible if you happen to write server controls and write a class that is derived from page. Page Execution Stages The first stage in the page life cycle is initialization. This is fired after the page's control tree has been successfully created. All the controls that are statically declared in the .aspx file will be initialized with the default values. Controls can use this event to initialize some of the settings that can be used throughout the lifetime of the incoming web request. Viewstate information will not be available at this stage. After initialization, page framework loads the view state for the page. Viewstate is a collection of

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name/value pairs, where control's and page itself store information that is persistent among web requests. It contains the state of the controls the last time the page was processed on the server. By overriding LoadViewState() method, component developer can understand how viewstate is restored. Once viewstate is restored, control will be updated with the client side changes. It loads the posted data values. The PostBackData event gives control a chance to update their state that reflects the state of the HTML element on the client. At the end of the posted data changes event, controls will be reflected with changes done on the client. At this point, load event is fired. Key event in the life cycle is when the server-side code associated with an event triggered on the client. When the user clicks on the button, the page posts back. Page framework calls the RaisePostBackEvent. This event looks up for the event handler and run the associated delegate. After PostBack event, page prepares for rendering. PreRender event is called. This is the place where user can do the update operations before the viewstate is stored and output is rendered. Next stage is saving view state, all the values of the controls will be saved to their own viewstate collection. The resultant viewstate is serialized, hashed, base24 encoded and associated with the _viewstate hidden field. Next the render method is called. This method takes the HtmlWriter object and uses it to accumulate all HTML text to be generated for the control. For each control the page calls the render method and caches the HTML output. The rendering mechanism for the control can be altered by overriding this render method. The final stage of the life cycle is unload event. This is called just before the page object is dismissed. In this event, you can release critical resources you have such as database connections, files, graphical objects etc. After this event browser receives the HTTP response packet and displays the page. Login to add your contents and source code to this article

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