Top "Viewstate" questions

ViewState is the mechanism that allows form field values to be preserved across page postbacks.

Setting ViewStateUserKey gives me a "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" error

I have the following in my BasePage class which all my ASPX pages derive from: protected override void OnInit(EventArgs …

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How do I turn off viewstate for good?

Coming from a PHP background I love using clean URLs to grab data from one service to another. However, on …

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Erratic Invalid Viewstate issue in a .NET application

I seem to be getting a "invalid viewstate" every now and then in the event viewer for my ASP.NET …

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Should I ignore the occasional Invalid viewstate error?

Every now and then (once every day or so) we're seeing the following types of errors in our logs for …

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Assigning DataTable to ViewState is a good way?

I'm getting a DataTable from a DataBase and assigning to ViewState like below: Because I don't want to hit the …

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What is ViewState? How is it encoded? Is it encrypted? Who uses ViewState?

What is ViewState? How is it encoded? Is it encrypted? Who uses ViewState?

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Restore a drop down selected item after postback

I'm trying to refresh page when an item of the drop down list is selected. DropDownList never gets last selected …

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What does the __VIEWSTATE hold?

I'm sorry for maybe making such a basic question but in ASP.NET websites what does the __VIEWSTATE input field …

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com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession vs com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews

Mojarra Implementation of JSF 2 has the following context params: com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession (default is 15) com.sun.faces.numberOfLogicalViews (default …

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How to access ViewState variable in Client side Javascript or JQuery

Is this possible to access ViewState variable at Client Side javascript or jquery functions in asp.net web application? If …

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