How to turn off View State of Datagrid

[Preetish]

I have developed an application in PHP background where i set the clean URLs to grab data from one service to another. However, on some of my ASP.NET projects I get the horrible ViewState parameter in my URLs. and therefore i have decided to Disable view state for a page, but I'm still getting lots of viewstate data in my hidden form field. Is there a way to turn this off globally?

[Pratap Gad]

I believe the <pages> (case is important) setting goes in the <system.web> section, and *not* in the <appSettings> section. Actually, it is a collection of 3 values, first one being the page hash, second is the sum of all the viewstates of every control in the page (which is the very content of the viewstate and would be empty in your case) and the third being an array of all the registered controls that require a postback. If you could provide us with a sample project/solution demonstrating the issue and the exact repro steps, we would still like to address the issue. You can see these values for yourself as by default the viewstate is not encrypted and it is just a base64 encoded string.

[Ardent]

ViewState is a hidden field that is sent to the server with a postback (which normally uses post). It keeps the state of the controls when the page was rendered to the client, sending it with each postback. I was unable to produce a NEW project with the same problem. But I extracted my control to a standalone page and still get the problem, no matter where I place the "EnableViewstate=False" attribute, my viewstate doesn't change size.

[Wazir]

The view state of a page is, by default, placed in a hidden form field named __VIEWSTATE. I disabled ViewState for the grid by setting its EnableViewState property to false. ViewState can be disabled for a single control, for an entire page. it is a good practice to turn off viewstate (if you are sure it is not needed) as it will reduce the size of your page. The purpose of ViewState is to provide the illusion that various page and control properties persist from one request to the next.