a problem with web user control events

Question

*** SOS *** I have a Web User Control that has an asp table. The table is basically a menu and I want to populate the items on the menu from my webform. I have a method in my .ascx file that creates the cells and imagebuttons. public void AddMenuItem(string commandName, string commandArg) { TableRow tr = Table1.Rows[0]; TableCell td = new TableCell(); ImageButton ib = new ImageButton(); ib.ID = commandName + commandArg;//Just an ID ib.Command += new CommandEventHandler( this.ImageButtonClick ); ib.CommandName = commandName; ib.CommandArgument = commandArg; td.Controls.Add(ib); tr.Cells.Add(td); } From the WebForm that hosts the user control I do the following. private void WebForm1_PreRender(object sender, System.EventArgs e)//this does not work { hdr1.AddMenuItem("One", "1"); hdr1.AddMenuItem("Two", "2"); hdr1.AddMenuItem("Three", "3"); } I have declared the delegte and the event in my user control and I have an event handler in my webform private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { //hdr1 is my user control hdr1.OnMyClick += new MyEventDelegate(hdr1_OnMyClick); // //rest of the code } Problem is that no event is being raised when I click on the image buttons. But if I move the following lines inside my .ascx file, it works just fine. private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)//this works { //This is the load method of my user control TableRow tr = new TableRow(); tr.BorderWidth = 0; Table1.Rows.Add(tr); AddMenuItem("One","1"); AddMenuItem("Two","2"); AddMenuItem("Three","3"); } I do not want to make the user control inteligent and I want to populate it from the web control. Can somebody tell me what the problem is. Any help is highly appreciated.