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ASP.NET server side element names changed?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

As far as I’ve known if the ClientID of a server control looked someting like this: ctl00_WebPartManager1_184c801b_7c67_4967_be37_3ab10406f967_ctl00_linkVote1 . Then the name sent on postback (which identified the control on the server side) was: ctl00$WebPartManager1$184c801b$7c67$4967$be37$3ab10406f967$ctl00$linkVote1 . But since some time the _ to $ conversion is not true any more. Instead the _ signs are randomly [...]

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