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View State:
Use viewstate to store data that are accessed by the same page. Ideally a POSTBACK situation.
For example, think of a report. The filter condition is appended as and when the user selects a condition and finally when the user click submit the report is generated. Here we can use viewstate to save the filter condition since the same page is posted back. When we use session here, the filter condition is lost on session expiry.
In general, its a good practice to disable viewstate for datagrids for lengthy reports.
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Beginner's Guide To View State [
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Example : http://asp-net-example.blogspot.in/2009/01/aspnet-viewstate-example-how-to-read.html[
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