.net - Checkbox Within Datagrid Retaining Checked Value On Postback In VB.NET But Not C#?

I have a project in VB.NET which is working fine which essentially has a Datagrid that has a TemplateColumn included which is a column of Checkboxes. The code to declare the datagrid is here...

<asp:datagrid id="dgDates" OnItemCommand="gridEventHandler" BorderColor="Black" BorderWidth="1px"
CellPadding="3" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" HorizontalAlign="Left" AllowSorting="True"
OnSortCommand="SortData" OnItemDataBound="gridItemDataBound">
<HeaderStyle Font-Underline="True" Font-Bold="True" HorizontalAlign="Center" ForeColor="Black"
BackColor="#D4D0C8"></HeaderStyle>
<Columns>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="strParameterName" SortExpression="strParameterName" HeaderText="Parameter Name"></asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="dtParameterValue" SortExpression="dtParameterValue" HeaderText="Parameter Value"></asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Constant" SortExpression="blnStatic" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:CheckBox ID="cbStaticRolling" Checked="False" Runat="server" AutoPostBack="true"></asp:CheckBox>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>

as you can see the Checkbox has Autopostback="true" but there are other things on the page which produce postbacks as well.

My Page_load has this in it, being called on every load of the page, postbacks included...

Dim strGUID As String
strGUID = Session("strGUID")
dgDates.DataSource = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings(Web. [Global].CfgKeyConnStringADMIN), "dbo.spRptGetSchedulingDates", strGUID)
dgDates.DataBind()
intNumberOfDates = dgDates.Items().Count

as well my code behind has the following code for the gridItemDataBound

Protected Sub gridItemDataBound(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs)
'hide the intRptSchedulingDatesID for each row in the checkbox's content style variable
If (e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem) Then
CType(e.Item.FindControl("cbStaticRolling"), CheckBox).Style("Content") = CType(e.Item.DataItem, System.Data.DataRowView).Item("intRptSchedulingDatesID")
End If
End Sub

everything you see sbove is working perfectly fine...in the sense that when I click one of the checkboxes, the page_load fires, the gridItemDataBound fires on DataBind() and when all is done, the checkbox retains the value that the user clicked the checkbox.

With all this exact same code converted to C#....the events all fire in the same order, but the checkbox selected value always clears...any thoughts??