Page lifecycle events not firing for user control on page layout when anonymous user

Question

I'm using SharePoint 2010.

I have a custom user control on a publishing page layout. When an authenticated user visits a page that uses the page layout everything works fine. When an anonymous user visits a page that uses the page layout, the content that should come from the user control is not shown. After some debugging I determined that the page life-cycle events (i.e. Render and CreateChildControls) are not firing on the user control when an anonymous user visits the page.

Anyone experienced this before?

Answer 1

It turns out the culprit was an EditModePanel. As soon as I took the control out of the panel it worked fine. I checked and the same applies to standard server controls (e.g. TextBox), they do not render for anonymous users when inside an EditModePanel.