I put a label and a button on a form. Every time I click the button, I want the value of the label to increment by one.
I've gone through several attempts to accomplish this, but they all lead to setting the label to the same value everytime the button is pressed. The latest attempt was

Partial Class Default2
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
 
    Function increment_counter() As Integer
        Static iCounter As Integer = 0
        iCounter = iCounter + 1
        Return iCounter
    End Function

    Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Label1.Text = increment_counter()
    End Sub
End Class

I'm sure there's something fundemental I'm missing about the difference between Web and desktop computing....almost certainly something to do with stateless computing......but if somebody could post some sample code, I can use that as a jumping off point.

In case it's relevant, here's the ASPX portion of the code

< %@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default2.aspx.vb" Inherits="Default2" %>

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

< html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
< head runat="server">
    < title>< /title>
< /head>
< body>
    < form id="form1" runat="server">
    < div>
    
    < /div>
    < asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
            
    < asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
    < /form>
< /body>
< /html>

Thanks to all.........Rich