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

When creating dynamic controls ... I only populate them on the initial load. Afterwords I recreate the controls on postback in the page load event, and the viewstate seems to handle the repopulating of the values with no problems.