>You need to add the controls eaerlier in the Page cycle. If you load them on Page_Load as I suspect you are POST back assignment (as well as Viewstate) have already occurred. You'll want to try and do this in OnInit() if possible...

I think you thought that I was trying to find a way to obtain my control values back in their view state. What I meant what about the controls themselves. I found today that those controls need to be added everytime a postback is done. However, based on what you wrote, the view state is preserved by moving that initialization code in the form Init().

Thanks