You are on the right track.
If you use TextBox, you do not need another ViewState to keep track of how many controls has been created, because TextBox control has its own ViewState already.
You can use either Page_Init or Page_Load to load control back.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs"
Inherits="WebApplication2010.WebForm1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="NumberTextBox" />
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="CreateControlButton"
OnClick="CreateControlButton_Click"
Text="Create Control" />
<br />
<asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="PlaceHolder1"></asp:PlaceHolder>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
namespace WebApplication2010
{
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (IsPostBack)
{
int ids;
if (Int32.TryParse(NumberTextBox.Text, out ids))
{
for (int i = 0; i < ids; i++)
{
Control ctrl = Page.LoadControl("WebUserControl.ascx");
ctrl.ID = i.ToString();
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(ctrl);
}
}
}
}
protected void CreateControlButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeBehind="WebUserControl.ascx.cs"
Inherits="WebApplication2010.WebUserControl" %>
<asp:CheckBox runat="server" ID="CheckBox1" />
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="Button1" OnClick="Button_Click"
Text="Post Back" />
<asp:Label runat="server" ID="Label1" />
<br />
using System;
namespace WebApplication2010
{
public partial class WebUserControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
protected void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label1.Text = " This control was posted back.";
}
}
}