Help With ViewState Please

[Schimsky]

Hi,

I have an asp.net page with the page directive being...

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="Survey2.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication1.Survey2" enableViewState="False"%>

Notice I have enableViewState = False. When I run the page and look at the Source, There is a TON of info in the viewstate field. Why is this?

Thanks For Any Help.

Steve

 

[Custom24]

Hmmm - to be honest I didn't believe you until I tried it for myself. However, I have checked it and proved (at least to myself) that there is less in the viewstate when the enableViewState property is turned off compared to when it is on. But I needed to close down the browser to see the difference.

I don't know why the viewstate hidden control is there at all when the page does not have the property set, so I came up with the routine below to decode what is in the viewstate. Maybe I have got it slightly wrong, but it does not help much.

Hope this helps
Mark

        'WinForm routine to convert from base 64 to a normal string (I think this should decode the contents of the viewstate)
        Dim s As String = InputBox("Enter")
        Dim b() As Byte = System.Convert.FromBase64String(s)
        Dim sm As New System.IO.MemoryStream(b)
        Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(sm, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
        Dim s2 As String = sr.ReadToEnd
        MessageBox.Show(s2)

Mark