The document discusses the ASP.NET page lifecycle, which begins when a client requests a page from the server. It goes through initialization, loading, validation, event handling, and rendering steps. Key parts of the lifecycle include initializing controls and themes, loading view state and postback data, validating controls, firing server-side events, and rendering the output. Master pages and user controls follow the same lifecycle but are initialized differently and have their events called at different times in the process. The full lifecycle ensures the correct processing and output of the requested page.
2. Table of Content
Introduction
Application Life Cycle
IIS Request Process
Application Pool
Worker Process
HTTP Handler/Module
ASP.NET Page Life Cycle
Page Life Cycle Steps
Page Life Cycle Events
Life Cycle for Master Page and User Control
QA
3. Introduction
When Clients request for an aspx page from browser
and lot of stuffs happens in background to produce the
output or sending response to client. This evolves
ASP.NET Page Lifecycle.
ASP.NET Page Life Cycle is very much important to
know for each and every developer to developed an
ASP.NET Web Application.
All events, data processing, dynamic control creation,
view state, postback, rendering etc. are depends with
Page Life Cycle.
4. Application Life Cycle
1. Client Request For Information
2. Request comes to Server
3. Server Process the request
4. Send the response back to Client
5. Application Life Cycle - Contd.
Key terms to remember
HTTP.SYS
WAS
Application Pool
Worker Process
http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/2006/06/30/Complete+Lifecycle+Of+A
n+ASPNet+Page+And+Controls.aspx
6. Application Life Cycle – Contd.
Key Terms To Remember
Http Module
Http Handler
Http Pipeline
7. End Of Application Life Cycle – Start Page Life Cycle
Request Passes Through HTTP Pipe Line
This Start Page Life Cycle
8. ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Begins
Start
Initialization
Load
Validation
Events
Render
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9. Page Life Cycle - Start
Client Request For Resource
Request Comes To Server (IIS)
IIS Process the Initial Processing
Request Passed through HTTP- Pipe Line
ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Starts
10. Page Life Cycle - Initialization
Set Postback properties
Unique ID for Each Control in the Page
Themes needs to be initialized
Dynamic control need to be created
11. Page Life Cycle - Load
If the Request is the post back request then it loads
data from View States and Control State
12. Page Life Cycle - Validation
Validate the pages Control
Updates the IsValid property
13. Page Life Cycle - Events
This will only fired if the request is an postback event.
Like, if the post back is happened for an Button Click.
Button Click event will fired.
14. Page Life Cycle - Render
Before Rendering All View State data has been set.
Render() method for all control has been called and
write the out put on output stream.
15. Page Life Cycle - Events
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16. ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Events
PreInit
Init
PreLoad
Load
Control Events
PreRender
SaveViewState
Render
Unload
17. Page Life Cycle – Events
PreInit()
This is the first event which raised in asp.net page lifecycle
Check for Request is for Post Back or not.
All dynamic control need to be created
Theme Change, Master Page Set at runtime
Init()
Raised after all controls have been initialized
Build up a tree of controls from the ASPX file
Turn on view state monitoring – any changes in control will be
tracked by View State for future.
18. Page Life Cycle - Events
PreLoad()
Load view state data for page and controls
Load Postback data if needed
We can process any kind operation that need to perform
before page load
Load()
OnLoad methods control called for each and every control
We can create the connection initialization for any kind of
external source like database connection
We can also set the control properties
19. Page Life Cycle - Events
Control Events
If this is an postback request , Corresponding events will triggered.
Like, if the post back is happing for button click, then Button_Click
Event will fired.
PreRender
Each control of the page has a PreRender event which is being
invoked.
EnsureChildControls is also being called during this events
DataBind method for all control has also been called
If we want to change any thing to any control this is the last event
where we can do because after the pageRender starts
20. Page Life Cycle - Events
SaveViewState
ViewState Monitoring is turned off as here all the ViewState
Data need to be saved.
View State data saved in hidden filed called _VIEWSTATE
Render
Pages calls the Render method for each and every control.
Text writer that writes the output to the as output stream
Output steam set to the page's Response property.
21. Page Life Cycle - Events
Unload
This is the last event of asp.net page life cycle
This ensure the Request and Response has been set to null.
This is called only after the content of the page fully rendered
and response sent to client
22. Page Life Cycle - Master Page and User Controls
MasterPage gets initialized from the Page class in the init phaze
of page. The content of Masterpage gets loaded side by side as
the page gets loaded.
User control will be initialized and added to the page and before
page gets initialized
After page Onload, MasterPage_OnLoad gets called and
UserControl_Onload gets called sequentially.
Followed by each of Page events, masterPage events gets called
and next Usercontrol events are called.
During the unload phaze, Usercontrol gets unloaded first and
then masterpage and Page in sequence.
For further reference refer to :
http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/2006/06/30/Complete+Life
cycle+Of+An+ASPNet+Page+And+Controls.aspx