determining that a Postback opens a new page

Question

I have a page (page1) with a LinkButton that, when clicked, will take the browser to a new page (page2).

When I click the LinkButton page1 posts back and hits the Init and Load event handlers for page1, and then moves on to page2.

How can I tell in the page1 postback that I am about to be taken to a new page, as opposed to clicking a Button that causes the page posts back but does not navigate away?

Answer 1

You can also add OnClick events to your code behind for each button, and in the case of the one that is to postback to another page, do a Response.Redirect. The limitation of that however is that if you need form data on "page2", you will lose posted form data on a Response.Redirect.

Answer 2

It appears that you're not using the OnCLick event of the LinkButton, If you use the event, perform the action of the click there, not on the Page Load event?