Hanselman’s Interview: Postbacks

Explain how PostBacks work, on both the client-side and server-side. How do I chain my own JavaScript into the client side without losing PostBack functionality? From StackOverflow: Postbacks are an abstraction on top of web protocols which emulate stateful behavior over a stateless protocol. On the client side, postbacks are achieved by javascript calls and hidden fields …

Hanselman’s Interview: ASP.NET Lifecyle

From constructor to destructor (taking into consideration Dispose() and the concept of non-deterministic finalization), what the are events fired as part of the ASP.NET System.Web.UI.Page lifecycle. Why are they important? What interesting things can you do at each? Object Initialization (Server object and page object instantiated) PreInit (Add dynamic controls) Init (Change control initialization values …