title: ASP.NET page lifecycle - between constructor and Page_PreInit (the "start stage")
body: <p>There are plenty of articles that explain the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ASP.NET WebForms page lifecycle</a>, but what happens between the constructor in the code-behind page getting called and the <code>Page_PreInit</code> event? MSDN refers to this time as the "start stage" of the page.</p>
  
  <p>I am debugging some code in which there is often a moderate delay between these two events (determined using logging, delay of the order of a few seconds).</p>