Page_Load always executed - can this be changed?

Hello,

I started using <asp:UpdatePanel> to update controls content in my page.

This work really great, and the Look and Feel are perfect.

However, in the page I load many controls dynamically in the Page_Load - it can reach thousands of controls.

Each of the controls contains UpdatePanel that has UpdateMode of "Conditional" - this let me change the contents of each control without affecting the other controls.But, and here finally come the catch, I noticed the whole Page_Load is executed. When there will be thousands of controls, I would like to Load them only once, then have AJAX code that would not cause the whole Page_Load to run again.

Is this possible? Can we make the AJAX read other page maybe?

Thanks in advance. :)

If you want to only run the code on the initial Page Load, you can throw everything in if(!Page.IsPostBack && !Page.IsCallBack). We use that method for most stuff, but if you use 3rd party controls, there may be some issues... We use telerik controls and they do a post back like event, which isn't caught by that.

Well, if I add if (!Page.IsPostBack) then the controls are lost, as they're not static in the page but rather created on the fly using Page.LoadControl method.

What I'm trying to achieve is that different page will be called by the AJAX "engine". So far my investigations on this bore no fruit. Any ideas?