Dynamic generate control according to the user's operation

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Introduction

sometimes we need to dynamic generate controls according to the user's operation, such as in a button click event. However, after the post back, the dynamic generated controls would disappear. I use viewstate to keep the infomation of the auto generated controls and generated them at the page load. Background

Using the code

Unfortunately the WebControl class is unserializable, so I define a serializable class to store the info of dynamic generated controls

 [Serializable]
    public class ContactControl

However, the genereted controls infomation are stored in the viewstate.

 private List<ContactControl> ContactControls
        {
            get
            {
                return ReadViewState<List<ContactControl>>("AddedControls", new List<ContactControl>());
            }
            set
            {
                ViewState["AddedControls"] = value;
            }
        }

At every page load, get the genereted controls information and generate them.

    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
        {
            List<ContactControl> contactControls = ContactControls;
            foreach (ContactControl contactControl in contactControls)
            {
                GenerateControl(contactControl);
            }
        }

Points of Interest

Although it can works, I believe it was not the best solution. Please email me if some one have a better solution