Does ParseControl do any caching?

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We use Page.ParseControl to interpret a string of XML into controls. Does it use some kind of caching mechanism? If not - is there a way to cache its result?

Page.LoadControl seems to support some sort of caching.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 04 '12 at 09:54

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There does not seem to be any caching involved. As a Control is a reference types, caching wouldn't be recommended in this case. (You want a new instance of the control each time you call the ParseControl function)

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Kees C. Bakker

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True. But the LoadControl performs caching. – Kees C. Bakker Mar 28 '11 at 10:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 04 '12 at 09:55

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LoadControl doesn't perform caching per say, but the difference is rather that ParseControl will parse the input string every time to create the control dynamically, while LoadControl will re-use the parsed control template and class type when creating new instances, making it an order of magnitude faster.

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answered Jan 04 '12 at 09:16

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Does ParseControl do any caching?

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