Hi,

Once you load a control and add it to say a place holder, is that control always there and is it just a matter of displaying it by some method or do you need to load it on each page postback. What i would like to do is have say 4 or 5 user controls and just display the appropriate one when selected by a user clicking a linkbutton. The user controls also need to keep viewstate. Is this possible, or a better way, if so, a point in the right direction would be great. Thanks for any advice

Kind Regards
Scott

To elaborate, I have handled this by overriding the rendering of the page. It works fine for all combinations but from aFindJob(fj) to aNewJob(nj). Hence I can go from nj to fj, fj to aAddEmp(ae) to fj,ae to nj, nj to ae, and fails only on fj to nj. It throws a failed to load view state error. the code is as follows. I cant work out why it is doing it.

        private void aFindJob_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            ph1.Controls.Clear();
            Bindph("FindProject.ascx");
        }

        private void aNewJob_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            ph1.Controls.Clear();
            Bindph("NewProject.ascx");
        }
        private void aAddEmp_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            ph1.Controls.Clear();
            Bindph("AddEmployee.ascx");
        }

        private void Bindph(string usrctl)
        {
                UserControl uc1 = (UserControl)LoadControl(usrctl);
                this.ph1.Controls.Clear();
                this.ph1.Controls.Add(uc1);
        }

        protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output)
        {
            if (IsPostBack && this.ph1.HasControls())
            {
                switch (World.GetPostBackControl(this).ID)
                {
                    case "aNewJob":
                        ph1.Controls.Clear();
                        Bindph("NewProject.ascx");
                        break;
                    case "aFindJob":
                        ph1.Controls.Clear();
                        Bindph("FindProject.ascx");
                        break;
                    case "aAddEmp":
                        ph1.Controls.Clear();
                        Bindph("AddEmployee.ascx");
                        break;
                    default:
                        Bindph("NewProject.ascx");
                        break;
                }
            }
            for (int i= 0;i<=Controls.Count -1;++i)
            {
                Controls[i].RenderControl(output);
            }
        }

thanks for any help.
Scott