>Perhaps because with dynamically created controls the names are not constrained to resolve completely at compile time? ie the errors won't occur until runtime.
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>>I commented out (in HTML style) the whole block of controls (sustituted them with UserControl). However, my page that tries to access controls that are commented out still compiles OK.

BTW, do you think they are the same people from this page
http://chiragrdarji.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/raise-event-from-user-control-to-main-page-event-delegation-from-user-control-to-aspx-page-in-aspnetc/

and from this one

http://chiragrdarji.blogspot.com/2007/08/raise-event-from-user-control-to-main.html