Events Firing Out Of Order Asp.Net - asp.net-2.0

Question

I have a system setup as follows:
User Control Called "Main" when I click a button in "Main" another user control (user control "A", user control "B", user control "C") is populated inside a placeholder of "Main" depending on some logic either A,B, or C is populated.
User controls A,B,C have many buttons on them as well. They Also have a placeholder to contain either user control x, user control y, user control z depending what is clicked inside user control "A" for example.
Main loads controls (A,B, or C) into its placeholder no problem, but when I click a button in A,B,or C to load their placeholder with x,y, or z the whole control (A,B, or C) dissappears.
I understand this has to do with viewstate not holding dynamic controls during a postback. So what I did was explictly called viewstate on the controls loaded into main (A,B,C). when they are loaded I save an entry of what was loaded like this ViewState("lastLoaded")='A' for example. When a postabck occurs (i.e. clicking a button in A) I reload the whole control A.
This is what happens:
I click a button in user control "A"
Postback occurs
User control "A" is reloaded because of the viewstate("lastloaded")
Then I have to click the button in "A" again at that time the button_click event fires
Can someone please help me fix this.
'Here is Main.ascx
Partial Class Main
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ViewState("name") = "ControlA2.ascx"
AddControl(ViewState("name").ToString())
End Sub
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If ViewState("name") <> String.Empty Then
AddControl(ViewState("name").ToString())
End If
End Sub
Public Sub AddControl(ByVal name As String)
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Clear()
Dim toAdd As Control = LoadControl(name)
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(toAdd)
End Sub
Protected Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
ViewState("name") = "ControlB.ascx"
AddControl(ViewState("name").ToString())
End Sub
End Class
'Here is Main designer
Main
asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Add Control A"
asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Text="Add Control B"
asp:PlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolder1" runat="server">
'Here is ControlA2.ascx
Partial Class ControlA2
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Clear()
Dim toAdd As Control = LoadControl("ControlX.ascx")
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(toAdd)
End Sub
End Class
'Here is ControlA2 designer
I am Control A
Add Control X
asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Add Control X"
asp:PlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolder1" runat="server"
/asp:PlaceHolder
'Here is ControlB.ascx
Partial Class ControlA2
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Clear()
Dim toAdd As Control = LoadControl("ControlZ.ascx")
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(toAdd)
End Sub
End Class
'Here is ControlB designer
I am Control B
Add Control Z
asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Add Control Z"
asp:PlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolder1" runat="server" /asp:PlaceHolder
'Here is ControlX.designer
asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label">I AM CONTROL X /asp:Label
'Here is ControlZ designer
asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label">I AM CONTROL Z /asp:Label

Answer 1

I've created a project based on your code and I've managed to recreate the issue.
When I initially run it and click on the Add control A button the Main control will load Control A and note this in the viewstate. Control A's button to add Control X will now appear with an id of Main1_ctl00_Button1. When clicking on this button Main's page load will add Control A back to it's placeholder and Control A's button click event will fire. If you now click Main's Control A button again the problem arises. Main's page load method will look at the Viewstate and add control A to the placeholder. Then Main's button click event will then fire clearing the placeholder and re-adding control A. When the form is displayed Control A's button to add Control X will now have an id of Main1_ctl01_Button1 as it was the second control to be generated in the code behind. Now when you click on the button to add control x Main's page load will add Control A again but as it's id will be Main1_ctl00_Button1 and the click event came from a button with an id of Main1_ctl01_Button1 the event will not fire.
To fix this you will have to avoid the duplication of control creation the second time around. You could do this by checking the requests form collection during the page load to see which button was pressed although this is not a very elegant solution. You will need to ensure that the buttons on the Main control have a unique text value for this to work.
Hopefully someone else may be able to come up with a more elegant solution:
Dim mainButtonClick = False
For index As Integer = 0 To Request.Form.Count
If Request.Form(index) = "Button A" Or Request.Form(index) = "Button B" Then
mainButtonClick = True
End If
Next
If Not IsPostBack And Not mainButtonClick And ViewState("name") <> String.Empty Then
AddControl(ViewState("name").ToString())
End If
Please excuse any errors in this code as I am not a VB.NET programmer.