Page_Load event not triggering 1

[johnfrederick]

I'm running examples from a book and it appears that none of the Page events are triggering. Control events seem to work ok. The examples I'm trying to run have, in the aspx file, a Sub Page_Load routine for one-time code, such as opening a connection, starting a DataReader, and binding it to a dropdown list. A demo intended to output messages on each of the page events does nothing. Code on the TextChanged event for a text box works. I don't see anywhere that the Sub Page_Load routine is specified to be run on a page load event. Is it a magic name?

 

[link9]

Tack this onto the end of your page_load:

Handles MyBase.Load

So:

private sub page_load(...) Handles MyBase.Load

The answer to getting answered -- faq855-2992

 

[johnfrederick]

Thanks to link9 for the solution to my problem. I'm using a book titled ASP.NET Unleashed by Stephen Walther and many of the examples don't work as provided. Connect strings to the MSDE 2 included in .NET Prof. all have to be modified because referring to localhost doesn't work, none of these page event routines have the Handles MyBase.Load, Init, etc. and a number of them are flagged as having html syntax errors relating to <p> usage.