In Microsoft AJAX, the order of events on the client side always confused me. There were various objects involved in the client life cycle, and I didn’t understand which events fired when. I distilled whatever documentation I found into a “cheat sheet” to illustrate the flow of events.

Click the image to download the cheat sheet or grab it from here. I had to use a free converter, PrimoPDF, to accommodate Foxit Reader owners, but being somewhat of a perfectionist, I’m unhappy with the quality of conversion so far.