In "Beginning ASP.NET using C#", pages 257 - 262 talk about the Page_Init 

and Page_Load events, and give an example. In the example, a global 

variable is incremented when the page is intialised and again when it's 

loaded, so the first time the page is loaded the variable is 2 (+1 in 

Page_Init and +1 in Page_Load). When the page is reloaded, the variable 

remains at 2 and the text explains that this is because the variable is 

not persisted and so is re-initialised each time the page is loaded. 



My question is, why is the variable 2, and not 1? If the variable is 

initialised, and Page_Init is not called (as is proved by output from the 

script), the variable should only be incremented once, during Page_Load.



One thing I should mention...I haven't actually physically run this 

example as I'm at work and only have the SDK at home. Therefore I'm going 

on output printed in the book, which I guess could be wrong.



Apologies for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help.



Gerry Crowe