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Determining an ASP.NET Page's View State Footprint
06 July 10 11:35 PM | Scott Mitchell | 6 comment(s)

ASP.NET view state is the technique used by an ASP.NET Web page to persist changes to the state of a Web Form across postbacks. The view state of a page is, by default, placed in a hidden form field named __VIEWSTATE, and can easily get very large. Not...

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How Big is Too Big a ViewState?
07 September 05 09:14 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

When creating ASP.NET pages one thing that usually doesn't get looked at too intensely by developers is the page's ViewState weight ( I've been guilty of this myself ). While there are various mechanisms to reduce the ViewState bloat in a page, the ultimate...

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Don't Trust ViewState
03 May 05 05:03 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Today I was pointed to a recent email to the BUGTRAQ mailing list (a mailing frequented by security experts) concerning replay attacks and ASP.NET view state. The email was posted by Michal Zalewski, titled: ASP.NET __VIEWSTATE crypto validation prone...

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Using Email as a Knowledge Base
25 April 05 09:42 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

A recent BBC article, E-mail is the New Database , examines how as the storage capacity and search capabilities of email services have grown and improved over the past year, many folks are using their online email accounts as personal databases. Need...

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Control Building and ViewState Redux
08 October 04 08:35 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Earlier this week I posted an entry titled Control Building and ViewState Lesson for the Day , in which I discussed when working with dynamic controls the importance of the order with which a control is added and its properties are set. My end recommendation...

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Control Building and ViewState Lesson for the Day
06 October 04 03:17 PM | Scott Mitchell | 1 comment(s)

Whenever I am working on a problem and hit a perplexing roadblock that impedes my process, my initial emotional state is calm. “I'll figure out this problem soon,” I tell myself, as I explore workarounds or examine the code base to try to understand why...

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Question: I set my page's EnableViewState property False; why is there still a __VIEWSTATE hidden form field?
23 July 04 02:54 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

ANSWER: A while back I wrote an article for MSDN online titled Understanding ASP.NET View State , and blogged about the article in this past entry . I recently noticed a comment in that blog entry from Matthias Cavigelli , asking: When I disable the ViewState...

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Largest. ViewState. Ever.
22 July 04 08:37 AM | Scott Mitchell | 1 comment(s)

The ASP.NET DataGrid Web control is notorious for its hefty view state size, but the DropDownList control can hold its own weight as well, especially when it contains a lot of items. For example, a page containing nothing but a DropDownList populated...

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Understanding ASP.NET View State
03 June 04 09:28 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

My latest MSDN article is now online, and covers a topic that many developers do not have as tight a grasp on as they may think. Understanding ASP.NET View State looks at how an ASP.NET page maintains its state changes across postbacks, examining: The...

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Google AdSense and ASP.NET View State
29 May 04 11:43 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

I recently decided to try out Google AdSense on a few personal sites I run - ScottOnWriting.NET, NBAWebLog.com , MP3Players101.com , skmMenu.com , and DataWebControls.com - mainly as an experiment to see the effectiveness of text advertising and what...

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A Stumper of an ASP.NET Question: SOLVED!
20 May 04 03:05 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

In my last blog entry I posed an ASP.NET / Repeater question that had me and a student of mine utterly stumped. I have been communicating with this student today, bouncing ideas back and forth, and he noted that if the Repeater's EnableViewState property...

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A Stumper of an ASP.NET Question
20 May 04 11:25 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Last night a student of mine asked why the Button Web control in a Repeater's ItemTemplate does not raise the Repeater's ItemCommand event when clicked, but a LinkButton does. I was perplexed because from my understanding anytime a Command event is raised...

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Panel Weirdness
28 April 04 12:14 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

I recently responded to a newsgroup post on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webcontrols that I thought warranted a follow-up comment here. The posters question was: I have a Panel control containing a few TextBox controls. The Panel is originally...

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