How do I turn off viewstate for good?

Question

Coming from a PHP background I love using clean URLs to grab data from one service to another.

However, on some of my ASP.NET projects I get the horrible ViewState p

Answer 1

Turn off the ViewState by default by using a element in the web.config. Using EnableViewState="true" in the @Page directive will no longer work once you disable the ViewState in the web.config. If you decide later that you need the ViewState for a specific page, you can turn it back on for just that page using a element.

You need to do the same for any master pages that your ViewState enabled page uses.