I am busy with a Silverlight video player at the moment, and what is interesting to note and understand is that Silverlight is heavily event-driven, as is ASP.NET and a lot of the .NET framework. You can attach event handlers to almost any object, from mouse event handlers to click event handlers.
Having asked that question I took a look at the ASP.NET page life cycle and just realised how intrinsic events are in the .NET framework. There are eight basic stages in the ASP.NET page lifecycle:
- Page Request
- Start
- Page Initialization
- Load
- Validation
- Postback Event Handling
- Rendering
- Unload
Within the page lifecycle there are events raised, which allows you to write code that initialises controls that are dynamically created.
