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

I realize this is an old thread, but we have been using Telerik's RadCompression HttpModule for a while now and it works incredibly well at compressing ViewState, AJAX and Web Service responses. You can also cheat and save ViewState in session - good for low traffic sites.

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/radcompression.html