Complete Lifecycle of an ASP.Net page and controls

Aravind Kumar    ASP.NET     asp.net page, asp.net page lifecycle, lifecycle, page lifecycle

Many people have blogged about the lifecycle of an ASP.Net Page or Master Page but every time I need to find the complete lifecycle of a control it’s not so easy. Today I wrote a couple of test pages to generate a reference.
The pages are very simple, I just overrode every method I could find and wrote to the trace. For completeness when the method called its base I wrapped it with “Start MethodName” and “End MethodName” (if you look at the trace outputs below you will see why). I did this for the Master Page (.master), Page (.aspx), User Control (.ascx) and Web Control (.cs), the page structre was simple:

Master Page
Page
User Control
Web Control

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