Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

In my continuing theme on reducing and eliminating the ViewState from ASP.NET pages I want to begin covering some great new features to help ViewState in ASP.NET 2.0.  Last month I talked about persisting the ViewState to memory using the LosFormatter.  That technique works fine, although there can be some gotchas to any technique to ...

Earlier I wrote about a method of moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page.  The advantages of this are two fold, one is it helps with search engine optimization by getting non-essential content out of the top of the page.  Second since it is at the bottom of the page it helps the important content to render just a little bit ...

At the Richmond Code Camp I went over some of my tips and tricks to get ASP.NET to perform as fast as possible.  One of the biggest things you have to do is reduce the size of your ViewState and also move it to the bottom of the page.  It was brought to my attention that the View State can be stripped entirely from the page as it is ...