>>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.
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>>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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>I think a great improvements in the next version would be to have those added controls to be preserved. So, we wouldn't have to worry about that on postbacks.

Nooooo.... where woould preseve them? The page goes away after everyhit! You added the controls manually it's your responsibility. If you put them in Markup ASP.NET manages that for you because it becomes part of the class.

You can create a base class and add controls from there and then they will show up everytime in your inherited class.

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