ASP.NET: Compress ViewState

Question

What are the latest and greatest ways to compress the ASP.NET ViewState content?

What about the performance of this? Is it worth it to keep the pages quick and minimize

Answer 1

The simple answer might not be what you want to hear. Too often, controls on the page have viewstate by default when they really don't need it. It's a good idea to switch off viewstate until you know you're going to need it, and only switch it on for the (hopefully) few cases where you actually want to keep the view state.