http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspxFrom time to time we get issues with high memory and performance issues due to massive viewstate. I have talked about it before here , but I thought I'd show some techniques for finding out which pages have high viewstate. If you look at a memroy dumpsv-SECommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8937042Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:12:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8937042Wallace<p>Thanks for the great info Tess!</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8937226Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:51:25 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8937226Kevin<p>When will MS simply drop the Viewstate completely? &nbsp; &nbsp;This is a good example of a solution to a problem that shouldn't be a problem to begin with. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8937289Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:25:02 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8937289mostlylucid<p>ViewState does not suck...part 1</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8940898Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:37:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8940898Chris<p>Kevin - If you're worried about ViewState then use ASP.Net MVC.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.asp.net/mvc/">http://www.asp.net/mvc/</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8941072Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:28:13 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8941072redsquare<p>Agreed, viewstate was a very, very bad design decision.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8943367Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:41:42 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8943367jd<p>interesting, i've been hiding viewstate on the server (sql), what i didn't think about at the time is it still gets pulled into the server memory...thanks Tess</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8946457Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:27:30 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8946457Christopher Steen<p>MSBuild MSBuild: Exec Task [Via: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi ] WPF Synchronizing the width of elements in...</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#8946460Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:28:26 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8946460Christopher Steen<p>Link Listing - September 11, 2008</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#9001839Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:25:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9001839Deviations<p>Yesterday I ran into an issue where the users were complaining about the application being very slow</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#9011776Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:49:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9011776PFE - Developer Notes for the Field<p>This week I have been working with a customer that had pretty large ViewStates that were getting pushed</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2008/09/09/asp-net-memory-identifying-pages-with-high-viewstate.aspx#9066799Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:42:54 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9066799prashant<p>thanks for sharing it with the world, you are the best</p>