Posted at 8/17/2011 3:04:44 AM
For those of you still using ASP.NET Web Forms, here is a handy
utility. The ViewState is a handy mechanism of ASP.NET that allows
a page to preserve state between postbacks. The default
implementation stores the content of the ViewState in a hidden
field that is included in the page. When a postback occurs, the
value of that field is sent back to the server, allowing it to
recover its previous state.
However useful the ViewState may be, it may cause some problems.
If too much data is stored in it, it can grow out of control and
significantly slow down the page loads. I have created a
GreaseMonkey script that helps keeping the ViewState under
control by displaying its size in the bottom of every page.
Download the script
here
Download
the script on userscripts.org