What do you do when you can't use ViewState?

Question

I have a rather complex page that dynamically builds user controls inside of a repeater. This repeater must be bound during the Init page event before ViewState is

Answer 1

The LoadViewState method on the page is definitely the answer. Here's the general idea:

protected override void LoadViewState( object savedState ) {
  var savedStateArray = (object[])savedState;

  // Get repeaterData from view state before the normal view state restoration occurs.
  repeaterData = savedStateArray[ 0 ];

  // Bind your repeater control to repeaterData here.

  // Instruct ASP.NET to perform the normal restoration of view state.
  // This will restore state to your dynamically created controls.
  base.LoadViewState( savedStateArray[ 1 ] );
}

SaveViewState needs to create the savedState array that we are using above:

protected override object SaveViewState() {
  var stateToSave = new List