>>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...
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>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().

Yeah of course controls neeed to be added every time - the page doesn't stay in memory it's a class that gets reloaded on every request.

Both viewstate and post data get reassigned on postback but it happens before Page_Load() so if ou looad controls there it's too late for them to be assigned.

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