How Web Forms Work
Just as you'll find when working with Windows Forms, ASP.NET Web Forms raise events in a certain order as the page initializes and loads. ASP.NET also raises events in response to user interaction in the browser. When you think about how a standard ASP or HTML page is created and sent to a browser, you assume that everything is processed in a very linear, top-down fashion. However, for a Web Form, nothing could be further from the truth.
Like a Windows Form, a Web Form goes through the standard Load, Draw (Render), and Unload types of events. Throughout this process, different procedures within the page's class module are called. When a page is requested from a client browser, a DLL that encapsulates the tags in the ASPX page ...
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