perhaps my understanding is still coming along, being new to OO, but why are UserControls abstract by default in VS.net? i thought abstract meant a class that could only be used as a parent and ...

If validation succeeds, then the code-behind takes over and moves the user on to the next page.<BR><BR>I hope this makes sense.<BR><BR>Any Javascript and ASP.Net masters out there with ideas?

User context makes life easier when tracing Http requests in ASP.NET Core applications. It’s easy to add with custom middleware.