Responding to Postback Events
The <asp:button>
objects
automatically postback
when clicked. You need not write any
code to handle that event unless you want to do something more than
postback to the server. If you take no other action, the page will
simply be re-sent to the client.
Normally, when a page is redrawn, each control is redrawn from
scratch. The Web is stateless, and if you want to manage the state of
a control (e.g., redraw the user’s text in the text box), you
must do so yourself. In classic ASP, the programmer was responsible
for managing this state, but
ASP.NET provides some
assistance. When the page is posted, a hidden element named
ViewState
is automatically added to the page:
<input type="hidden" name="_ _VIEWSTATE" value="YTB6LTI5MTE3ODE1N19hMHpfaHo1ejF4X2Ewel9oejV6NXhfYTB6YTB6YTB6aHpSZXBlYXRMYXl vdXRfU3lzdGVtLldlYi5VSS5XZWJDb250cm9scy5SZXBlYXRMYXlvdXR6VGFibGV4X0RhdGFWYWx1ZUZpZ WxkX1NoaXBwZXJJRF9EYXRhVGVceHRGaWVsZF9Db21wYW55TmFtZXhfX3hfYTB6YTB6YXpTcGVlZHkgRVx 4cHJlc3NfMV94X2F6VW5pdGVkIFBhY2thZ2VfMl94X2F6RmVkZXJhbCBTaGlwcGluZ18zX3hfeF94X3hfX 3h4X3h4X3hfX3hcdDUwX1N5c3RlbS5TdHJpbmc=a15204ed" />
This element represents the state of the form (the values are already chosen by the user). When the page is redrawn on the client, ASP.NET uses the view state to return the controls to their previous state.
When the user clicks the Order button, the page is posted and the event handler assigned to that button is invoked:
public void Order_Click (object sender, System.EventArgs ...
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