LinkButton with click method doesn't work

Question

I have an issue with LinkButton in my toolbar, basically i deployed a custom action which adds a link button to the menu, this link button on click should do some task like adding an item, but this method is never called.

That is how the code looks like for the link button:

public class MyCustomControl: WebControl
    {
        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {
            base.CreateChildControls();

            LinkButton linkButton = new LinkButton
            {
                Text="Fun"
            };

            linkButton.Click += new EventHandler(linkButton_Click);
            Controls.Add(linkButton);          

        }

        void linkButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
          //DO SOME ACTIOn
        }
}

So the linkbutton is added and everything is ok, but when i click it, it just refreshes the page and that is it. Nothing happens

Here is the declaration in the custom action:

 <CustomAction
        Id="MyCustomAction"
        Title="Fun"
        Description="Lets have fun"
        RegistrationType="ContentType"
        RegistrationId="0x01"
        GroupId="ActionsMenu"
        Location="DisplayFormToolbar"
        Sequence="1000"
        ControlAssembly="Assembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ac112ea8ee9f48g0"
        ControlClass="Assembly.MyNamespace.MyCustomControl">

Any idea, what could go wrong?

Update:

This link is rendered as with this href:

javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$m$g_e00f473f_0a92_40aa_9805_03114c3f2da5$ctl00$ctl01$ctl00$toolBarTbl$RptControls$Fun", "", true, "", "", false, true))

Answer 1

After a lot of time spending researching this issue, I finally found the solution, basically what i had to do is on OnLoad method, i had to ensure that the controls are bound, basically by only doing this:

    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnLoad(e);
        EnsureChildControls();
    }

This way the link button worked perfectly.

Answer 2

give the link button an ID - i've had this issue before where the controls ID is autogenerated and cant map an event back to it on postback.

I.e. change:

LinkButton linkButton = new LinkButton
{
    Text="Fun"
};

To

LinkButton linkButton = new LinkButton
{
    Text="Fun",
    Id="CustomActionLinkButton"
};

Alternatively use the OnInit() method

private LinkButton linkButton;

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
   base.OnInit(e);
   linkButton = new LinkButton
   {
       Text="Fun",
       Id="CustomActionLinkButton"
   };
   linkButton.Click += new EventHandler(linkButton_Click);
}

protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
    base.CreateChildControls();
    Controls.Add(linkButton);          
}