As soon as ASP.NET technology appeared, __ViewState hidden field width became rather a headache for most programmers who had to use it. There were sites that downloaded back and forth up to 50 Kb of useless information. Nowadays in the Internet you can find lots of recommendations how to optimize the field width, e.g. gentle handling of EnableViewState property, page generation on each request, field contents compression, etc.

We believe that the best solution of the �__ViewState problem� is to store its content in a file or database on the server. Let us take a look at the advantages of our variant:

- Reduction of traffic volume between the client and server. This results in reduction of page load time.

- __ViewState field width is no longer so critical. This means you can greatly reduce application programming time.

- It takes only a few minutes to set the whole application for the given technology plus one minute for each page at the most.