title: GridView and Load Postback Data stage
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  <p>Q1 </p>
  
  <p>A) On a postback, when in the page’s life cycle are GridView’s rows populated with all the values it had before user issued a postback? Thus at what point does GridView already have all the values it displayed on user’s page?</p>
  
  <p>I’m assuming this happens the same time it happens with other controls, which is during <em>Load ViewState Data stage</em>?!</p>
  
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  <p>B) Text user entered into <em>TextBox</em> control is made available after <em>Load Postback Data stage</em>. Shouldn’t changes user made to GridView’s fields also be available after <em>Load Postback Data stage</em>?</p>
  
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  <p>Q2 - Are there any differences between the way <em>SelectedIndexChanged</em> event is handled when DropDownList is defined inside GridView’s template and when DropDownlist is defined outside GridView? Meaning, is in both cases the event fired at the same point in Page’s life cycle?</p>
  
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  <p>thanx</p>