Hello Phil,

any code samples demonstrating the problem?

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WBR,
Michael  Nemtsev [.NET/C# MVP] :: blog: http://spaces.live.com/laflour 

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
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PJ> Hello,
PJ>
PJ> I have a page that contains a user control that is nested within
PJ> other user controls... the nesting is quite deep, not sure exactly
PJ> how ddep but there is a control inside a control inside a ... etc.
PJ>
PJ> One of the user controls has a button click that tries to get a
PJ> reference to the problematic user control nested inside of it but it
PJ> throws an exception saying the user control does not exist, but this
PJ> problem only happens on a postback, on first load everything is
PJ> fine.
PJ>
PJ> When I put a breakpoint in the pageload event handlers of all the
PJ> user controls and the page, on first load they all fire, but on a
PJ> postback the pageload of the problematic user control does not fire.
PJ>
PJ> Anybody got any ideas?
PJ>
PJ> Thanks in advance,
PJ>
PJ> Phillip Johnson (MCSD For .NET)
PJ> PJ Software Development
PJ> www.pjsoftwaredevelopment.com