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 best way to minimize the view state is just to not use it. It will cause you to do some extra work programming (repopulating control values etc on post back, but it will save you on the amount of information you send to the browser). You can't tamper with it.

Here is a link to the view state on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972976.aspx

Here is a link describing some best practices:

http://mnairooz.blogspot.com/2007/01/aspnet-20-viewstate-and-good-practices.html

And One on disabling the ViewState:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ASPNET_Best_Practices.aspx