What do you do when you can't use ViewState?

Question

I have a rather complex page that dynamically builds user controls inside of a repeater. This repeater must be bound during the Init page event before ViewState is

Answer 1

protected override void LoadViewState(object savedState)
{
   // Put your code here before base is called
   base.LoadViewState(savedState);
}

Is that what you meant? Or did you mean in what order are the controls processed? I think the answer to that is it quasi-random.

Also, why can't you load the objects you bind to before Page_Load? It's ok to call your business layer at any time during the page lifecycle if you have to, with the exception of pre-render and anything after.