"mortb" <mortb1<noospam<@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm writing a custom treeview control.
> The treeview is a htmltable with the nodes and branches,
> The htmltable is located in a div to make it scrollable when it is larger
> than a certain pixel size.
> All this is nested in my custom control.
> My problem is that the viewstate becomes really large when I add the
> control to a test page which does not have any other controls on it.
> I've tried to disable the viewstate both on the page, the control and the
> htmltable, but nothing seems to work!
> The 30kb viewstate is still there.
> I have no need to store the contents of the treeview in the viewstate as
> this is updated from the database every pageload.
>
> Please help!
> mortb
>

"mortb" <mortb1<noospam<@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What I needed was the viewstate decoder!
>
> http://www.pluralsight.com/tools.aspx
>
> What a relief I felt when I found this. I saw that the problem was
> stemming from my checkboxes so I wrot my own chekbox control and now my
> view state is less than a kb!
>
> cheers,
> mortb